Package: libterm-readline-ttytter-perl
Version: 1.4-1
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
'stretch'.
It installed fine in 'stretch', then the upgrade to 'buster' fails
because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
Breaks+Replaces relation.

See policy 7.6 at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Selecting previously unselected package libterm-readline-ttytter-perl.
  Preparing to unpack .../libterm-readline-ttytter-perl_1.4-1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking libterm-readline-ttytter-perl (1.4-1) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libterm-readline-ttytter-perl_1.4-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/perl5/Term/ReadLine/TTYtter.pm', which is 
also in package ttytter 2.1.0+1-1

The ttytter package is gone from testing and unstable, but to ensure clean
upgrades from stable you need to add the corresponding Breaks+Replaces.


cheers,

Andreas

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