On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > >> - allow for some form of --cont-on-error... I tried to install > mime-support > >> (upgrade, actually) and it failed because of an a2ps conflict. It then > >> exited and didn't configure the remaining upgraded packages it had > >> downloaded. I ran dpkg --pending --configure manually and that worked > fine. > > > >Erm, conflict? Are you sure it wasn't a post-inst failure? dpkg should not > >report a conflict when trying to install.. > > > Not sure when exactly it was... but the conflict was over the file > /usr/bin/convert which is in both a2ps and in mime-support. Should be easy > to reproduce if you want to check it out... after I removed a2ps, > mime-support installed fine.
Oh, that's a file overlap, there should be bugs filed against both packages I hope. Jason
