I'm surprised to see Replaces without a Breaks, and further for the Replaces to be unversioned. This doesn't match one of the cases listed at https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition, and https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#id11 explains why usually a Breaks is also required.
Since I'm not sure this is correct, I'm reluctant to accept it on review. I'm not sure it's necessarily wrong, either. I'll ping Steve for an opinion. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libsignon-glib in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916250 Title: gir1.2-signon-2.0 needs to declare replace on older releases (Groovy2Hirsute and Focal2Jammy) Status in libsignon-glib package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in libsignon-glib source package in Hirsute: In Progress Status in libsignon-glib source package in Impish: In Progress Bug description: gir1.2-signon-1.0 from groovy gir1.2-signon-2.0 from hirsute above two packages ship the same file /usr/lib/python3/dist- packages/gi/overrides/Signon.py without specifying how to resolve the conflict. [Test Case] This can be simply tested with a focal schroot: 1) apt-get install vim libsignon-glib-dev 2) edit /etc/apt/sources.list replacing focal with hirsute 3) apt-get update 4) apt-get install libsignon-glib-dev With the version of libsignon-glib-dev from -proposed you'll no longer receive the 'dpkg: error' from below. Unpacking gir1.2-signon-2.0:amd64 (2.1-3) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gir1.2-signon-2.0_2.1-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Signon.py', which is also in package gir1.2-signon-1.0 1.14+17.04.20161117-0ubuntu5 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gir1.2-signon-2.0_2.1-3_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Probably needs a conflicts/replaces dependency added to the newer hirsute package. [Regression Potential] We are adding a replaces with gir1.2-signon-1.0 so anything that depends on that package would be broken but given that that package is no longer available after focal that seems fine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsignon-glib/+bug/1916250/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
