[rb-general] Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Ben,

> Still, it seems like there is a wider problem here: if the exact same
> code is ever built in two unrelated packages then their debug info
> packages will conflict even if the regular binary packages don't.

I've seen this outside of reproducibility where I was shipping the exact
same binary in the redis-server and redis-sentinel packages (it changes
behaviour based on argv[0]).

The -dbgsym packages then conflicted for the same reason.


Regards,

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