The soapysdr library stacks from bullseye and bookworm are not
co-installable, but the transitive conflict behind longer dependency
chains is not always easy detectable by apt. Therefore several upgrade
paths result in old libraries being kept installed and some upgradable
packages being kept at an older version.

Making the conflict explicit between higher scoring packages helps apt
finding a better upgrade path.

Please consider applying the attached patch.

Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for the patch.  I have prepared a package for upload.  I
didn't see any problems with piuparts with the new package, but in the
interest of full disclosure, I also couldn't reproduce the piuparts
failure with 0.8.1-2.  (Perhaps you could share the invocation you used
to identify the problem?)

In any event, I think the change is good and am planning to upload,
provided there are no concerns from the Debian Hams.

Cheers,
tony

Re: tony mancill

Looks good to me.

Christoph

W: libsoapysdr0.8: breaks-without-version libsoapysdr0.7
N:
N:   This package declares a Breaks relationship with another package that has no version number. Normally, Breaks should be used to indicate an
N:   incompatibility with a specific version of another package, or with all versions predating a fix. If the two packages can never be installed at the same
N:   time, Conflicts should normally be used instead.
N:
N:   Note this tag can also be issued if a package has been split into two completely new ones. In this case, this package is missing a Replaces on the old
N:   package.
N:
N:   Please refer to Packages which break other packages - Breaks (Section 7.3) in the Debian Policy Manual, Conflicting binary packages - Conflicts (Section
N:   7.4) in the Debian Policy Manual, and Bug#605744 for details.
N:
N:   Visibility: warning
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: fields/package-relations


However, I trust Andreas on this one, and we can adjust as needed later.

Cheers,
tony

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
soapysdr, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1036737@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> (supplier of updated soapysdr package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 09:35:42 +0200
Source: soapysdr
Architecture: source
Version: 0.8.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
Closes: 1036737
Changes:
 soapysdr (0.8.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload
   * libsoapysdr0.8: Add Breaks: libsoapysdr0.7 for smoother upgrades from
     bullseye.  (Closes: #1036737)
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severity 1036737 normal
tags 1036737 - patch
thanks

[resend just to the bug because it was still archived before]

It is unfortunate that I neglected the package at that time and did not
look at the underlying issue. I reverted the Breaks added in the team
upload now, in any case.

The SoapySDR library and module packages are designed to be
co-installable across SONAME versions and if something prevents that it
is an issue that needs fixing. Could you tell me what the specific
issue was that prevented co-installation?

There is no file conflict or similar issue between the libsoapysdr0.x
packages, theoretically they would be co-installable.
The problem is in the dependency trees of the 0.7 (bullseye) and 0.8
(bookworm) packages, there is at least one package in conflict, so the
dependency trees are not co-installable.
Since this is sometimes hard for apt to figure out properly (and choose
the "correct" solution: remove the complete old package tree that is in
conflict (but currently installed)), we have to hint apt with some
additional Breaks ...

Andreas