On 20 February 2005 at 17:54, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: | Package: r-doc-info | Version: 2.0.1-2 | Severity: important
Actually, that is 2.0.1-3 from earlier today. -2 was fine. | > Preparing to replace r-doc-info 2.0.1-2 (using .../r-doc-info_2.0.1-3_all.deb) ... | > Unpacking replacement r-doc-info ... | > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/r-doc-info_2.0.1-3_all.deb (--unpack): | > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc-base/r-admin', which is also in package r-doc-html | | The doc-base file in question just seems to point at HTML docs anyway, | so r-doc-info really shouldn't be shipping it. Thanks for the heads up. I had started to create a doc-base file for the 'info' flavour before I noticed that doc-base doesn't support the info format. Per Murphy's law, I forgot to remove that broken doc-base file. Even sadder is that the whole doc-base exercise failed as dhelp_parse flakes out on softlinks to directories. Dirk -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

