Re: help needed

Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Feb 2025 12:41:48 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.medical
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Hi again Maarten,

Étienne Mollier, on 2025-02-01:
> About this issue:
>> Oh, and piuparts complains about something. Perhaps one with more knowledge
>> is willing to have a look at salsa to see what is wrong here?
>> 
>> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libpdb-redo
> 
> The relevant message in piuparts' output would be:
>>> Unpacking libpdb-redo3.2 (3.2.1-2+salsaci+20250129+24) ...
>>> dpkg: error processing archive /var/lib/local-apt-repository/../../..//srv/local-apt-repository/libpdb-redo3.2_3.2.1-2+salsaci+20250129+24_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>>>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpdb-redo.so.3.2.1', which is also in package libpdb-redo3 (3.2.1-1)
> 
> This is probably because libpdb-redo3.2 breaks and replaces
> libpdb-redo3 but does not declare it in its control file,
> causing dpkg to flag the conflict on the file
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpdb-redo.so.3.2.1 upon upgrade.

Oh, I forgot to mention there's an example in the policy manual
section 7.6.1[1] if that helps.

[1]: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#overwriting-files-in-other-packages

Have a nice day,  :)
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