Bug#671716: texlive-latex-base: fails to upgrade from squeeze - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man1/mptopdf.1.gz

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> wrote:

> Package: texlive-latex-base
> Version: 2011.20120424-1
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
>
> Hi,
>
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
> 'squeeze'.
> It installed fine in 'squeeze', then the upgrade to 'wheezy' fails
> because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
> replaces relation.
[...]
>   Unpacking replacement texlive-latex-base ...
>   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-latex-base_2011.20120424-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/mptopdf.1.gz', which is also in package context 2009.11.26-2

We need

Replaces: context (<< 2011)
Breaks: context (<< 2011)

I've committed that; maybe <= would be better, but I don't know what to
exactly put there and if it's worth it.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)