Bug#803565: ure: removal of ure makes files disappear from libreoffice-common: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/unorc

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 02:02:13PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> This is caused by using Replaces without corresponding Breaks.
> 
> The installation sequence to reproduce this problem is
> 
>   apt-get install libreoffice-common/jessie
>   # (1)
>   apt-get install ure/stretch
>   apt-get remove ure/stretch

Which is not really helpful given it will basically remove LO, too. But only
the arch-dep parts, so yes, the "properly but not properly installed"
libreoffice-common stays.

I was starting to say "downgrades are not supported" but..

That probably explains #801152
I tried a upgrade/downgrade in #801152 but probably because I did it
"the right way" the issue didn't appear.

> 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

... this makes sense, yeah.

Regards,

Rene

P.S: Perfect timing, I almost wanted to upload 1:5.0.3~rc2-1 now :)