Bug#821743: cyrus-admin: fails to upgrade from 'sid' - trying to overwrite /usr/sbin/cyrus

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Mon Apr 18 23:02:51 UTC 2016


Package: cyrus-admin
Version: 2.5.7-0+exp4
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

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.

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 cyrus-admin.
  Preparing to unpack .../cyrus-admin_2.5.7-0+exp4_all.deb ...
  Unpacking cyrus-admin (2.5.7-0+exp4) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cyrus-admin_2.5.7-0+exp4_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/cyrus', which is also in package cyrus-common 2.4.18-5
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/cyrus-admin_2.5.7-0+exp4_all.deb


cheers,

Andreas
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