On 01.11.2014 05:44, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: pki-tools,strongswan-starter > Version: 10.2.0-2 > Severity: serious > User: trei...@debian.org > Usertags: edos-file-overwrite > Control: found -1 5.2.1-4 > > 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: > > Selecting previously unselected package strongswan-starter. > Preparing to unpack .../strongswan-starter_5.2.1-4_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking strongswan-starter (5.2.1-4) ... > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/strongswan-starter_5.2.1-4_amd64.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/pki', which is also in package pki-tools > 10.2.0-2 > dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/strongswan-starter_5.2.1-4_amd64.deb > > 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): > > usr/bin/pki > usr/share/man/man1/pki.1.gz > > This bug is assigned to 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 > also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug.
I don't mind adding a Conflicts. On Fedora though strongswan changed the binary/manpage name to strongswan-pki: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/strongswan.git/commit/strongswan.spec?id=710e5ac47162230da3e715a5117a8bb269e4af6d -- t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
