Bug#1004167: debianutils: tries to overwrite /usr/share/man/fr/man1/readlink.1.gz, also in manpages-fr

[Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues]

Control: tag -1 + patch

On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 04:08:18 +0100 Vincent Lefevre  wrote:
> I get the following error when I want to upgrade:
> 
> Unpacking debianutils (5.6-0.1) over (5.5-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_5.6-0.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/fr/man1/readlink.1.gz', which is also in 
> package manpages-fr 4.12.1-3
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_5.6-0.1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

this is due to the following change in the last NMU:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/commit/af07f29d318781033e560030fdd3ebc0458abdcf#7197be9dcd1c350e8cd40ad50073d78624da6f10_12_11

The following MR reverts this change:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/19

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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Bug#1004167: debianutils: tries to overwrite /usr/share/man/fr/man1/readlink.1.gz, also in manpages-fr

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: debianutils
Version: 5.5-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I get the following error when I want to upgrade:

Unpacking debianutils (5.6-0.1) over (5.5-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_5.6-0.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/fr/man1/readlink.1.gz', which is also in 
package manpages-fr 4.12.1-3
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_5.6-0.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 
'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii  libc6  2.33-3

debianutils recommends no packages.

debianutils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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