I've uploaded a version that should fix this.

On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 19:42 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:35:30 +0300 Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 15:06 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > > But the upgrade path from stretch is not clean:
> > > 
> > >   Selecting previously unselected package python3-cliapp.
> > >   Preparing to unpack .../python3-cliapp_1.20170827-1_all.deb ...
> > >   Unpacking python3-cliapp (1.20170827-1) ...
> > >   dpkg: error processing archive 
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-cliapp_1.20170827-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> > >    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz', which is also 
> > > in package python-cliapp 1.20160724-2
> > >   Errors were encountered while processing:
> > >    /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-cliapp_1.20170827-1_all.deb
> > > 
> > > So you will need some Breaks and Replaces against the old
> > > package in stretch.
> > 
> > I see the problem now. I was confused by you calling it an upgrade problem,
> > when it isn't. It's a problem with one package containing the same file as
> > another package, and the two packages are only tangentially related.
> > 
> > It doesn't seem to me to be a particularly likely scenario, to me. A user
> > would need to change their sources.list to point from stretch to buster,
> > and then not upgrade anything else, but install python3-cliapp.
> > 
> > I'll add the Breaks and Replaces some day. Or have all of cliapp removed
> > from Debian.
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
> Do you have an ETA on the upload fixing cliapp?  At the moment, cliapp
> is a key package and as such a potential blocker for the new Debian release.
> 
> If you are pondering a removal (per your last sentence), the following
> packages currently rely on cliapp in testing and would need to migrate
> away first:
> 
> """
> 
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> # Broken Depends:
> 
> cmdtest: cmdtest
> freedom-maker: freedom-maker
> live-wrapper: live-wrapper
> vmdb2: vmdb2
> vmdebootstrap: vmdebootstrap
> 
> # Broken Build-Depends:
> cmdtest: python-cliapp
> freedom-maker: python3-cliapp
> live-wrapper: python-cliapp
> vmdb2: python3-cliapp
> """
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
> 

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