reassign 916468 whitedune 0.30.10-2.1 thanks Le 14/12/2018 à 20:24, Andreas Beckmann a écrit : > 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 unselected package dune. > Preparing to unpack .../dune_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking dune (1.6.2-1) ... > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/dune_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/dune', which is also in package whitedune > 0.30.10-2.1+b2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/dune_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb > > > This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates > sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would > consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming > or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the > circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file > diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a > last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual > Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and > diversions should only be used when packages provide different > implementations for the same functionality. > > Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages > (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be > slightly out of sync): > > usr/bin/dune > usr/share/man/man1/dune.1.gz
As discussed on debian-devel, I propose that the whitedune package drops /usr/bin/dune, which is a symlink to whitedune. Cheers, -- Stéphane
