Bug#1032966: tzdata-legacy: file conflict with tzdata 2022g-7

[Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>]

Hi Sven,

On Tue, 2023-03-14 at 22:30 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: tzdata-legacy
> Version: 2022g-7exp1
> Severity: serious
> 
> There was an error installing your package:
> 
> ,----
> > Unpacking tzdata-legacy (2022g-7exp1) ...
> > dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata-legacy_2022g-7exp1_all.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Africa/Abidjan', which is also in package tzdata 2022g-7
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata-legacy_2022g-7exp1_all.deb
> `----
> 
> After upgrading tzdata version 2022g-7exp1 the install succeeded, so the
> Breaks/Replaces on tzdata needs to be bumped.  Unfortunately this
> problem will constantly reoccur with updates to tzdata in Bookworm.
> 
> It seems to me that tzdata-legacy should actually have unversioned
> Replaces+Breaks (or Replaces+Conflicts) on tzdata-bookworm, and tzdata
> should stop providing tzdata-bookworm in uploads not targeted at Bookworm.

Thanks for the report. That is an excellent idea and will also solve
this problem for Ubuntu which ships newer upstream releases in their
stable releases.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer