Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.16 Severity: important dpkg seems to ignore the version in "Replaces: foo (<= $version)" when the Replacing package is first installed, and the replaced one only afterwards.
"Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tetex-doc-nonfree > Version: 1.0-1 > Severity: important > > Hello, > > tetex-doc-nonfree contains files which are also in tetex-doc 3.0-15. > > Unpacking tetex-doc-nonfree (from .../tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/texmf/context/base/ms-cb-en.pdf.gz', > which is also in package tetex-doc > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb > [...] > I also know the bug would be better suited against tetex-doc 3.0-15, > however, unfortunately, tetex-doc 3.0-15 is upgradable from 3.0-14 with > tetex-doc-nonfree 1.0-1 present. I don't know why this is (perhaps some > bug in dpkg?), but the other way around (installing tetex-doc-nonfree > 1.0-1 while tetex-doc 3.0-15 is present) fails as shown above, so I file > the bug against tetex-doc-nonfree. In fact this seems to be a bug in dpkg. The underlying tetex-doc-nonfree bug is that it should declare Replaces: tetex-doc (<= 3.0-15) but it does only Replaces: tetex-doc (<= 3.0-14) This is how it looks like if tetex-doc_3.0-14 and tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1 are installed first, and tetex-doc_3.0-15 afterwards: # apt-get install tetex-doc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: libapache2-mod-php4 libapache2-mod-php5 Recommended packages: tetex-bin dvi2tty xpdf pdf-viewer gv postscript-viewer mozilla-browser www-browser The following packages will be upgraded: tetex-doc 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 50.1MB of archives. After unpacking 4096B of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! tetex-doc Authentication warning overridden. Get:1 http://localhost sid/main tetex-doc 3.0-15 [50.1MB] Fetched 50.1MB in 10m39s (78.5kB/s) (Reading database ... 13169 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace tetex-doc 3.0-14 (using .../tetex-doc_3.0-15_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement tetex-doc ... Replaced by files in installed package tetex-doc-nonfree ... Setting up tetex-doc (3.0-15) ... Note that reproducing this bug in unstable won't work from tomorrow, because I've just uploaded tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-2 with a correct version in Replaces. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
