Package: dose-doc Version: 4.3-2 Severity: serious User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts replaces-without-breaks Hi, during a test with piuparts and DOSE tools I noticed your package causes removal of files that also belong to another package. This is caused by using Replaces without corresponding Breaks. The installation sequence to reproduce this problem is apt-get install dose-distcheck/sid # (1) apt-get install dose-doc/experimental apt-get remove dose-doc # (2) The list of installed files at points (1) and (2) should be identical, but the following files have disappeared: /usr/share/doc-base/debcheck-primer This is a serious bug violating policy 7.6, see https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces and also see the footnote that describes this incorrect behavior https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f53 The dose-doc package has the following relationships with dose-distcheck: Conflicts: n/a Breaks: n/a Replaces: apt-cudf (<< 4.3-2), dose-distcheck (<< 4.3-2), libdose3-ocaml-dev (<< 4.3-2) >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 0m42.1s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared: /usr/share/doc-base/debcheck-primer owned by: dose-doc 0m42.1s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have been modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/dose-distcheck.list not owned Similar problems exist with apt-cudf and libdose3-ocaml-dev. cheers, Andreas
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