Package: libesmtp6 Version: 1.1.0-3 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. This leaves a crippled libesmtp5 package installed on certain upgrade paths. This is a serious bug violating policy 7.6, see https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces and also see the footnote that describes this incorrect behavior: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#id13 The libesmtp6 package has the following relationships with libesmtp5: Conflicts: n/a Breaks: n/a Replaces: libesmtp5 >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 3m29.5s ERROR: FAIL: debsums reports modifications inside the chroot: debsums: missing file /usr/lib/esmtp/sasl-cram-md5.so (from libesmtp5 package) debsums: missing file /usr/lib/esmtp/sasl-login.so (from libesmtp5 package) debsums: missing file /usr/lib/esmtp/sasl-plain.so (from libesmtp5 package) This wasn't noticed as long as libesmtp6 still provided the files, but that no longer seems to be the case. cheers, Andreas
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