Control: tags -1 +pending Hi Andreas,
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 8:46 PM, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails 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. Thanks for catching this, it's my fault. > See policy 7.6 at > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces Indeed, I know the policy. > Is the SOVERSION 6 => 1 change really a wise idea? > What happens after the next 5 SOVERSION bumps? That would take years as the last SONAME bump was two years ago as upstream tries to be API / ABI compatible between releases. But the next upstream SONAME expected to be 7 anyway. Regards, Laszlo/GCS
