Package: ncbi-data,ncbi-rrna-data Version: 6.1.20170106-2 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts replaces-without-breaks
Hi, during a test with piuparts and DOSE tools I noticed your package causes removal of files that also belong to another package. This is caused by using Replaces without corresponding Breaks. The installation sequence to reproduce this problem is VICTIM=ncbi-data, OFFENDER=ncbi-rrna-data apt-get install $VICTIM/jessie # (1) apt-get install $OFFENDER/stretch apt-get remove $OFFENDER # (2) The list of installed files at points (1) and (2) should be identical, but the following files have disappeared: /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA.nhr /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA.nin /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA.nsq /usr/share/ncbi/data/rRNAstrand.nal This is a serious bug violating policy 7.6, see https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces and also see the footnote that describes this incorrect behavior https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ (old: footnotes.html#f53) [footnote permalink broken (#879048), search for /To see why/] The $OFFENDER package has the following relationships with $VICTIM: Conflicts: n/a Breaks: n/a Replaces: ncbi-data (<< 6.1.20160908) >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 0m40.2s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared: /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA.nhr owned by: ncbi-rrna-data /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA.nin owned by: ncbi-rrna-data /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA.nsq owned by: ncbi-rrna-data /usr/share/ncbi/data/rRNAstrand.nal owned by: ncbi-rrna-data 0m40.2s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have been modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncbi-data.list not owned Similar effects can be shown with VICTIM and OFFENDER swapped, the affected files in this case are /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA_2-12-2008.nhr /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA_2-12-2008.nin /usr/share/ncbi/data/Combined16SrRNA_2-12-2008.nsq Mixing one data file from stretch and one datafile from jessie also means that one set of the moved files is missing. Which is not a problem from dpkg point of view, but perhaps from your application logic. cheers, Andreas
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