On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 09:34:16 +0300 Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> 24.12.2018 6:00, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > Followup-For: Bug #916279
> > Control: found -1 1:3.1+dfsg-2
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > you are missing a
> > Breaks: qemu-system-data (<< 1:3.1+dfsg-1~)
> > to match the Replaces, otherwise you are permitting partial
> > upgrade/downgrade paths where files are disappearing whil
> > dpkg considers everything correctly installed.
>
> it doesn't really break the package in question. All these
> packages will be of the same version anwyway, upgraded in
> one go, at the very max there will be some docs missing
> for a (short) while, until the next apt run.
>
> More, it's just one version which were like that during the
> buster development cycle.
>
> Besides, *this* bug is fixed, it does declare a replacement :)
The usual way is to declare a Breaks/Replace when a file is moved
between packages to prevent the file to be overwritten in case an older
version of the package is installed.
> I don't think this bug needs to be acted upon more. At least
> I don't plan a new upload at least before it is migrated to
> testing, as time is already too short and this very bug, a
> stupid mistake, already took more time than necessary.
>
Well this bug has been reopened that mean that the package will never
migrate
