• Bug#1102704: libg2c-dev and liblapack-doc have an undeclared file confl

    From =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Villem@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 23 16:00:01 2025
    Le samedi 12 avril 2025 à 11:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit :
    Package: libg2c-dev,liblapack-doc
    Severity: serious
    User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
    Usertags: fileconflict

    The file /usr/share/man/man3/second.3.gz is contained in the packages
    * libg2c-dev/2.1.0-1 as present in trixie|unstable
    * liblapack-doc/3.12.1-2 as present in trixie|unstable

    These packages can be unpacked concurrently, because there is no
    relevant Replaces or Conflicts relation. Attempting to unpack these
    packages concurrently results in an unpack error from dpkg, because none
    of the packages installs a diversion for the affected file.

    Please figure out which of these packages should properly own the
    affected file and reassign the bug as appropriate. When doing so, please
    add the other package to the set of affected packages using "Control:
    affects -1 + <packagename>" to avoid the filing of duplicates.

    The other package should stop installing the file. In case the file is
    being moved between packages, Breaks and Replaces should be declared. In
    this case, please refer to policy section 7.6 for details. Another
    useful resource is https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition.

    I notice that the version of that manpage in libg2c-dev is broken:

    $ man second
    man: can't resolve man3/g2c_message_info.3
    No manual entry for second

    Also, it seems that every field in the g2c_message_info struct has a
    (broken) manpage.

    So I’m inclined to think that it’s rather libg2c-dev that should remove
    the conflicting file. But I’m also open to the idea of removing it from liblapack-doc.

    Alastair: what do you think?

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