Bug#880900: irony-server: fails to upgrade from 'testing' - trying to overwrite /usr/bin/irony-server

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: irony-server
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-***@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
'testing'.
It installed fine in 'testing', then the upgrade to 'sid' fails
because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
Breaks+Replaces relation.

See policy 7.6 at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces

From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

Selecting previously unselected package irony-server.
Preparing to unpack .../irony-server_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking irony-server (1.2.0-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/irony-server_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/irony-server', which is also in package irony-mode 0.2.0-1+b3
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/irony-server_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb


cheers,

Andreas

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the bug report, and sorry I missed this serious issue.
It's fixed in git. I will wait to upload until I hear your opinion of
#880669 and #880670. Summary of those bugs: Self-tests that were not
run for irony-mode-0.2.0-1+b3 fail for mips64el and arm64.

Do you think that uploading a 1.2.0-2 that fixes this bug and
downgrading the severity those other two provides the greatest benefit
to the greatest number of users? eg: most users are amd64, and the
new package is validated on amd64 by self-tests that didn't exist
before. The easiest thing to do is to just disable self-tests and
restore behaviour of the old package, but I don't think that's the
best approach...

Cheers,
Nicholas

Post by Andreas Beckmann
Hi,
during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
'testing'.
It installed fine in 'testing', then the upgrade to 'sid' fails
because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
Breaks+Replaces relation.
See policy 7.6 at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces
Selecting previously unselected package irony-server.
Preparing to unpack .../irony-server_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking irony-server (1.2.0-1) ...
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/irony-server', which is also in package irony-mode 0.2.0-1+b3
/var/cache/apt/archives/irony-server_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb
cheers,
Andreas

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