Hello When uploading the latest quagga package which now includes a BABEL daemon, too, I wasn't aware that there is an existing babeld package already.
It seems the best if both quagga and babeld add a Conflict: against each other as it does not make much sense to have both packages installed, or? bye, -christian- Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 08:24:07 +0200 From: Ralf Treinen <trei...@free.fr> To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#671916: quagga and babeld: error when trying to install together Package: babeld,quagga Version: babeld/1.3.1-1 Version: quagga/0.99.21-1 Severity: serious User: trei...@debian.org Usertags: edos-file-overwrite Date: 2012-05-08 Architecture: amd64 Distribution: sid Hi, 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: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! libcap2 quagga babeld Preconfiguring packages ... Authentication warning overridden. Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Selecting previously unselected package libcap2. (Reading database ... 10559 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libcap2 (from .../libcap2_1%3a2.22-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package quagga. Unpacking quagga (from .../quagga_0.99.21-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package babeld. Unpacking babeld (from .../babeld_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/babeld_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man8/babeld.8.gz', which is also in package quagga 0.99.21-1 configured to not write apport reports Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/babeld_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 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/share/man/man8/babeld.8.gz This bug has been filed against both packages. If you, the maintainers of the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may then also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug. -Ralf. PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors of this kind see http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/. -- Network Engineering & Design; Content Delivery Platform & IP NETCOLOGNE Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH Am Coloneum 9 | 50829 Köln Tel: 0221 2222-8711 | Fax: 0221 2222-78711 www.netcologne.de Geschäftsführer: Dr. Hans Konle (Sprecher) Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Zankel HRB 25580, AG Köln Diese Nachricht (inklusive aller Anhänge) ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie diese Nachricht versehentlich erhalten haben, bitten wir, den Absender (durch Antwort-E-Mail) hiervon unverzüglich zu informieren und die Nachricht zu löschen. Die E-Mail darf in diesem Fall weder vervielfältigt noch in anderer Weise verwendet werden. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
