Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.25.5-1
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
'jessie'.
It installed fine in 'jessie', then the upgrade to 'sid' fails
because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
Breaks+Replaces relation.

See policy 7.6 at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Selecting previously unselected package mediawiki.
  Preparing to unpack .../mediawiki_1%3a1.25.5-1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking mediawiki (1:1.25.5-1) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mediawiki_1%3a1.25.5-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Cite', which is also in 
package mediawiki-extensions-base 3.7
  Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u4) ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/mediawiki_1%3a1.25.5-1_all.deb


cheers,

Andreas

Attachment: mediawiki-extensions-base=3.7_mediawiki=1%1.25.5-1.log.gz
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