Control: severity -1 important On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: libicu-le-hb-dev [...] > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from > 'sid' to 'experimental'. libicu-le-hb-dev was never part of Sid and strictly speaking it can't fail to upgrade from Sid to experimental.
> It installed fine in 'sid', then the upgrade to 'experimental' fails > because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a > Breaks+Replaces relation. No, it was never installed fine in Sid and this is expected at this time. Please see the log that you attached to your report: "The following NEW packages will be installed: [...] libicu-le-hb-dev libmpdec2 libmpfr4 libpcre16-3 libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 [...]" It's a newly installed package, not an upgrade. > See policy 7.6 at > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces Thanks, I know the policy. Please note that experimental is not a full suite by itself - but a test bed for a coming transition where the pkg-config file will be handled. The replace handling in this case the worst solution. Then, please at least send valid URLs. The mentioned part of the Policy lives at a different URL[1]. Thanks, Laszlo/GCS [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces
