On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:37:49PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > If you're going to make them grave then they belong to debianutils > rather than coreutils (on the argument that it renders debianutils > unusable on upgrade.) > Here's what I don't understand: > > (31)osgiliath:/tmp> apt-cache show coreutils > Package: coreutils > Essential: yes > Priority: required > Section: base > Installed-Size: 6132 > Maintainer: Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 4.5.8-1 > Replaces: textutils, shellutils, fileutils, stat, debianutils (<= 2.3.1) > ... > > IOW, coreutils is set up to replace debianutils, so none of these bugs > makes any sense. Maybe reassign to dpkg, or am I missing something > obvious? Note that policy section 7.5.1 says: > If an installed package, foo say, declares that it replaces another, > bar, and an attempt is made to install bar, dpkg will discard files in > the bar package which would overwrite those already present in foo. This > is so that you can install an older version of a package without > problems. > > By my reading of that a debianutils package without readlink should be > unnecessary.
Well, my dist-upgrade today said: Preparing to replace coreutils 4.5.7-1 (using .../coreutils_4.5.8-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement coreutils ... Replacing files in old package debianutils ... Setting up coreutils (4.5.8-1) ... (Reading database ... 71250 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace debianutils 2.2.3 (using .../debianutils_2.3.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debianutils ... dpkg: error processing /fujitsu/debs/debianutils_2.3.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/bin/readlink', which is also in package coreutils So basically what you're seeing here is that the ordering isn't necessarily sane. Clint said (in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183209&msg=9): > I suppose that coreutils needs a Conflicts against debianutils << 2.4-1 > as long as people are going to continue installing earlier versions > after coreutils 4.5.8-1. This will likely make APT realize that debianutils >> 2.4 needs to be upgraded first. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
