On 24 November 2012 at 11:38, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
| Package: gretl
| Version: 1.9.11-1
| Severity: serious
| User: [email protected]
| 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 'sid' fails
| because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
| replaces relation.
| 
| See policy 7.6 at
| http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces
| 
| >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
| 
|   Preparing to replace gretl 1.9.1-2 (using .../gretl_1.9.11-1_amd64.deb) ...
|   Unpacking replacement gretl ...
|   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gretl_1.9.11-1_amd64.deb 
(--unpack):
|    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/gretl.desktop', which is also 
in package gretl-common 1.9.1-2
|   configured to not write apport reports
|   dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

I'll take a look. Seems like dh_movefile call needs an update.

Dirk

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Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com  


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