On 17 June 2016 at 12:42, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote:
> Commit 0dcc739e7a28 ("debian: Move ovs-lib to openvswitch-common.")
> shifted a file between debian packages, but didn't update the
> destination package annotations to indicate that it replaces a file
> from earlier versions of the source package.
>
> As a result, if one installs openvswitch-switch-2.5* and then tries to
> upgrade to openvswitch-{switch,common}-2.5.90+, the install of
> openvswitch-common will fail like the following:
>
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /tmp/openvswitch-common_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-lib', which is
> also in package openvswitch-switch 2.5.0-1
>
> Fix the issue by adding "Replaces" and "Breaks" tags to the new
> openvswitch-common section of debian/control.s/new//g _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
