Package: qemu-system-common Followup-For: Bug #916279 I just hit the same issue:
Preparing to unpack .../000-qemu-system-common_1%3a3.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking qemu-system-common (1:3.1+dfsg-1) over (1:2.12+dfsg-3+b1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-NkNslm/000-qemu-system-common_1%3a3.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc-base/qemu-system-doc', which is also in package qemu-system-data 1:2.12+dfsg-3 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Few (3-4) cycles of: 10: dpkg --configure -a apt-get install --fix-broken apt-get dist-upgrade if fail: GOTO 10 kind of resolved the problem. Still the qemu-system-common should mark it conflicts with qemu-system-data <=1:2.12+dfsg-3 ? State of packages now: -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages qemu-system-common depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii libc6 2.28-2 ii libcap-ng0 0.7.9-1+b1 ii libcap2 1:2.25-1.2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.1-2 qemu-system-common recommends no packages. qemu-system-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
