On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:35:47PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
> 'jessie'.
> It installed fine in 'jessie', then the upgrade to 'stretch' fails
> because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
> Breaks+Replaces relation.
>
> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
>
> Selecting previously unselected package hunspell-es.
> Preparing to unpack .../hunspell-es_1%3a5.1.3-1_all.deb ...
> Unpacking hunspell-es (1:5.1.3-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/hunspell-es_1%3a5.1.3-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/hunspell/es_ES.aff', which is also in package myspell-es 1.11-9
Guess I can add something here too. That would be a conflicts, though.
myspell-es in stretch has a "Conflicts: hunspell-es" that clearly
prevents this situation in stretch.
The question is: shouldn't the update have tried to update both? Do we
actually try support partial upgrades?
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