Hi whitedune maintainers, On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 14:00:45 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?St=c3=a9phane_Glondu?= <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Is anybody against dropping the symlink? If not, I can prepare an upload to fix this RC bug. This bug affecting my package view3dscene, because I use whitedunes files in its tests. I could drop the dependency but I'd rather not. Paul
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