Hi Helmut, On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:52:58AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: libgssapi-krb5-2 > Version: 1.15-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: violates policy section 8.2 > > libgssapi-krb5-2 is a shared library package and contains > /etc/gss/mech.d/README. The latter filename does not depend on the > soname of the library and thus does not change when the soname changes. > Thus the package will not be coinstallable a newer soname of the same > library and make system upgrades unnecessarily difficult. This violates > the first sentence from policy section 8.2, which is a must: > > | If your package contains files whose names do not change with each > | change in the library shared object version, you must not put them in > | the shared library package. > > This actually causes problems today, due to a related bug in dpkg, which > does not properly support conffiles in m-a:same packages (#861217).
Thanks for the report, and sorry that it is causing problems. I think we will need to discuss the best option given that stretch is frozen and there is at least one other bug that would be nice to fix for stretch outstanding (#860767, currently fixed in experimental). -Ben
