This looks good to me according to the debian policy manual:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces
Acked-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiet...@vmware.com>
I noticed is that if I try to upgrade from 2.5.0 to 2.5.90(with this
change) using dpkg from command line the results may vary:
`dpkg -i openvswitch-common_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb
openvswitch-switch_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb`
still complains, because openvswitch-common is processed first and that
breaks the installed openvswitch-switch. dpkg doesn't seem to be smart
enough to realize that openvswitch-switch is being updated as well. This is
the alphabetical order, which is used if someone types `dpkg -i *.deb`
`dpkg -i openvswitch-switch_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb
openvswitch-common_2.5.90-1_amd64.deb`
instead seem to work.
I'd be curious to hear from someone more expert than me in debian packaging
if this should be considered a bug in dpkg, or (unlikely, given the
explicit instructions in the Debian Policy Manual) if there's a better way
to handle the file transition.
Thanks,
Daniele
2016-06-17 12:46 GMT-07:00 Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>:
> 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
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