Package: getmail6 Version: 6.7-1 Severity: serious Your package ships /usr/bin/getmail and various other files owned by the getmail package, here is a complete list:
,---- | # dpkg -i --force-overwrite getmail6_6.7-1_all.deb | (Reading database ... 13802 files and directories currently installed.) | Preparing to unpack getmail6_6.7-1_all.deb ... | Unpacking getmail6 (6.7-1) ... | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail_fetch', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail_maildir', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail_mbox', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getmail.1.gz', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getmail_fetch.1.gz', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getmail_maildir.1.gz', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: | dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getmail_mbox.1.gz', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1 | Setting up getmail6 (6.7-1) ... `---- A Conflicts with getmail would solve that, however I think it would also be desirable to work out a transition plan for bullseye. The getmail package is not installable there, and dist-upgrades from buster are going to remove python and its reverse dependencies including getmail. Thank you for packaging the Python3 fork of getmail! :-) -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.9.1-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
