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Status: Triaged => Invalid
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Title:
software-center ignores Replaces directive in case of Conflict
Status in software-center package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
I have encountered this problem with the CrossOver Office
(http://www.codeweavers.com/products/) packages. They come in multiple
flavors, but only one can be installed at a given time. The more
capable flavors use the 'Replaces' directive to smoothly 'upgrade' the
less capable ones. This works fine with dpkg, but software-center
instead gives me an error as if the Replaces directive was not there
(this directive is described in section 7.6.2 of the Debian Policy
Manual).
I have reproduced the situation with dummy packages so you have all the
details. You can get them there:
* source (1.4KB)
http://fgouget.free.fr/tmp/gdebi/foo-packages.tar.gz
* basic package (1.2KB)
http://fgouget.free.fr/tmp/gdebi/foo_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
* sophisticated package (1.2KB)
http://fgouget.free.fr/tmp/gdebi/foo-pro_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
Here is how to reproduce the problem:
* Run: software-center foo_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
* Install the 'foo' package. This is the package to be replaced by the more
'sophisticated' version.
* Then run software-centeri foo-pro_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
* You get the following message:
> Breaks existing package 'foo' that conflict: 'foo-highlander'. But the
> '/home/weaver/foo-pro_1.0.0-1_i386.deb' provides it via:
'foo-highlander'
* The 'Install' button is enabled which is good, but when clicking on it
disables the button and nothing seems to happen.
* Indeed running 'dpkg -l foo-pro' shows the package has not been installed.
So software-center does not want or fails to replace the foo package
with foo-pro. I think it should maybe warn the user but still allow
him to proceed. With dpkg there is no issue:
$ sudo dpkg -i foo-pro_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package foo-pro.
dpkg: considering removing foo in favour of foo-pro ...
dpkg: yes, will remove foo in favour of foo-pro.
(Reading database ... 127365 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking foo-pro (from foo-pro_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up foo-pro (1.0.0-1) ...
As a side not, the same issue plagued gdebi a long time ago and now plagues
it again. See bug #146398.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/146398
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.1.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 29 12:41:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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