Hi Ralf,
On Wed, 28 May 2008 22:41:51 +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
> same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
> detected the following problem:
>
> Selecting previously deselected package dvi2ps-fontdesc-morisawa5.
> Unpacking dvi2ps-fontdesc-morisawa5 (from
> .../dvi2ps-fontdesc-morisawa5_0.3.2_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/dvi2ps-fontdesc-morisawa5_0.3.2_a ll.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/texmf/dvi2ps/fontsk/bikan-morisawa',
> which is also in package dvi2ps
Yes, I myself encountered this a few days ago.
> This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail. Possible
> solutions are to have the two packages conflict, to rename the common
> file in one of the two packages, or to remove the file from one
> package and have this package depend on the other package. File
> diversions or a Replace relation are another possibility.
In the present case, dvi2ps-fontdesc-morisawa5 depends on
dvi2ps so possible solutions are very limited.
I think to rename the common file in dvi2ps-fontdesc-morisawa5
at present.
> This bug could in principle be filed against any of the two packages.
> I might have made the wrong choice in filing the bug against your
> package, in this case please feel free to reassign to the other
> package.
Yes, you certainly made the right choice.
Thanks for yoyr report.
2008-5-29(Thu)
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