On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:30:16AM -0700, Guru Shetty wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Fixes: 0dcc739e7a28 ("debian: Move ovs-lib to openvswitch-common.")
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>
> >
>
> One option is to move back ovs-lib to openvswitch-switch and make
> ovn-common depend on openvswitch-switch too. ovn-common is used by
> ovn-central and ovn-host and both of them have a dependency on
> openvswitch-switch anyway, so it is probably not a bad thing.
>
> Ben do you have any opinions on what is the "debain way" here?
I don't think there's anything wrong with that proposal but one wouldn't
normally make packaging choices on the basis that someone might type
dpkg commands in the wrong order.
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