Hi Kevin,
do you have a plan to work on this? I'd recommend to choose the name
/usr/bin/axe-demultiplexer
and provide
/usr/lib/debian-med/bin/axe
in addition and add
Recommends: med-config (>= 2.1)
to d/control. This could be completed by and according hint in
debian/README.Debian. You might like to have a look into the packages
inspect, libgenome-perl or plink as examples. Feel free to ask for
further advise.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 09:36:38PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: axe-demultiplexer
> Version: 0.2.8-1
> Severity: serious
> User: debian...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
>
> 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 axe-demultiplexer.
> Preparing to unpack .../axe-demultiplexer_0.2.8-1_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking axe-demultiplexer (0.2.8-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/axe-demultiplexer_0.2.8-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/axe', which is also in package axe 6.1.2-16.2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/axe-demultiplexer_0.2.8-1_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.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
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