On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 09:10:37AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Package: openswan,strongswan-starter > Version: openswan/1:2.6.38-1 > Version: strongswan-starter/5.1.1-3 > Severity: serious > User: trei...@debian.org > Usertags: edos-file-overwrite > > Date: 2014-03-05 > Architecture: amd64 > Distribution: sid > > Hi, > > automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the > same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has > detected the following problem: > Unpacking strongswan-starter (5.1.1-3) ... > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/strongswan-starter_5.1.1-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite '/etc/ipsec.secrets', which is also in package openswan > 1:2.6.38-1 > dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.6-1) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/strongswan-starter_5.1.1-3_amd64.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates > sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would > consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming > or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the > circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file > diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a > last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual > Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and > diversions should only be used when packages provide different > implementations for the same functionality. > > Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages > (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be > slightly out of sync): > > /etc/init.d/ipsec > /etc/ipsec.conf > /etc/ipsec.secrets > /usr/lib/ipsec/_copyright > /usr/lib/ipsec/_updown > /usr/sbin/ipsec > /usr/share/man/man5/ipsec.conf.5.gz > /usr/share/man/man5/ipsec.secrets.5.gz > /usr/share/man/man8/ipsec.8.gz > > This bug has been filed against both packages. If you, the maintainers of > the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will > resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may then > also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug. > > -Ralf.
Thanks for the report. openSwan is currently unmaintained: it's definitely unmaintained in Debian (last upload from 2012), and it's barely maintained upstream. I think openSwan should be removed altogether, but I can surely add a Conflicts since there's no change openSwan and strongSwan can work together. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez
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