On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 07:08:36PM +0000, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> Package: bcrelay
> Version: 1.2.3-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> Justification: Policy 7.5.1

> bcrelay was split out from pptpd.  pptpd depends on bcrelay to force it
> to be installed on pptpd upgrades.

> However, when the user has pptpd 1.2.1-5 (or older) installed, and the
> new pptpd 1.2.3-1 and bcrelay 1.2.3-1 are to be installed, the following
> happens:

> | Selecting previously deselected package bcrelay.
> | Unpacking bcrelay (from .../bcrelay_1.2.3-1_i386.deb) ...
> | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bcrelay_1.2.3-1_i386.deb 
> (--unpack):
> |  trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/bcrelay', which is also in package pptpd
> | [...]
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> |  /var/cache/apt/archives/bcrelay_1.2.3-1_i386.deb

> bcrelay should conflict with (and replace) old versions of pptpd.

No, it should only replace it unless there is a reason that the new bcrelay
can't be used with the old pptpd.

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