Bug#850772: multipath-tools-boot: fails to upgrade from 'jessie' - trying to overwrite /etc/init.d/multipath-tools-boot

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Tue Jan 10 01:17:45 UTC 2017


Package: multipath-tools-boot
Version: 0.6.4-1
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
'jessie'.
It installed fine in 'jessie', then the upgrade to 'stretch' 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...):

  Preparing to unpack .../multipath-tools-boot_0.6.4-1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking multipath-tools-boot (0.6.4-1) over (0.5.0-6+deb8u2) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/multipath-tools-boot_0.6.4-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/multipath-tools-boot', which is also in package multipath-tools 0.5.0-6+deb8u2
  Preparing to unpack .../multipath-tools_0.6.4-1_amd64.deb ...
  invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel
  invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of stop.
  Unpacking multipath-tools (0.6.4-1) over (0.5.0-6+deb8u2) ...


In case it does matter, this was observed during a
wheezy->jessie->stretch upgrade test.


cheers,

Andreas
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