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Preparing to unpack .../gitlab-runner-helper-images_17.7.0-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking gitlab-runner-helper-images (17.7.0-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gitlab-runner-helper-images_17.7.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/gitlab-runner/helper-images/prebuilt-ubuntu-x86_64-pwsh.tar.xz', which is also in package gitlab-runner 17.6.0-1
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to unpack .../gitlab-runner_17.7.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gitlab-runner (17.7.0-1) over (17.6.0-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gitlab-runner-helper-images_17.7.0-1_all.deb
Problem is caused by introducing a new package taking over files from an existing package without declaring Replaces: gitlab-runner (<< 17.7) (exact version needs to be determined) and equivalent Breaks:. See also the Debian Policy Manual, chapter 7.6 (no link provided because of restriction banning me from posting) .
Steps to reproduce
apt upgrade from 17.6.0-1 to 17.7.0-1
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gitlab-runner on Debian bookworm.
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I can confirm this, we had the same issue tonight, running Debian Bookworm.
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gitlab-runner-helper-images_17.7.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/gitlab-runner/helper-images/prebuilt-ubuntu-x86_64-pwsh.tar.xz', which is also in package gitlab-runner 17.6.0-1
Thanks! Same issue here on Ubuntu as well. Our systems auto-upgraded on December 19th and then the services went offline as the systemd unit unit files got deleted. Appreciate your posting here so I could confirm it was the same issue we were seeing. Can confirm the workaround seems to work on both intel and arm64 (and same issue):
gitlab-runner-helper-images does not replace gitlab-runner, so declaring Replaces: gitlab-runner (<< 17.7) is wrong! It does conflict with gitlab-runner version 17.6 (17.5 doesn’t contain those files), so a Conflicts: gitlab-runner (= 17.6) (I don’t remember the syntax, maybe it has to be different).
I expect what they could have done was put a depends to make the gitlab-runner-helper-image depend on gitlab-runner-17.7.0-1 to ensure that was installed first. This would seem to be true, since on my system when running apt-get upgrade I got an error message, but on the subsequent run, gitlab-runner-helper-images was installed, and the helper package got installed without problems. So I never had to use the force-overwrite parameters.
I read the Debian Policy manual years ago (I’ve used Debian since 1999, so it’s since then, but I can’t remember when) but it seems I forgot a major usecase (it’s even explicitly mentioned) for “Replaces”. Sorry for that.
And checking everything I wrote I found that 17.5 does contain those files (I checked on one of our runners, that has 17.5, but must have made a typo when not being able to see anything in /usr/lib/gitlab-runner. Looking on our mirror server, there have been files in /usr/lib/gitlab-runner (the amount of files have changed, haven’t done a full investigation into that) since gitlab-runner 11.1.
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