This is the full terminal output of trying to install the package under
gNewSense (metad) on mipsel:
$ sudo aptitude -u
Selecting previously deselected package mercurial-common.
(Reading database ... 166267 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mercurial-common (from .../mercurial-common_1.0.1-5.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mercurial.
Unpacking mercurial (from .../mercurial_1.0.1-5.1_mipsel.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up mercurial-common (1.0.1-5.1) ...
Setting up mercurial (1.0.1-5.1) ...
Enabling hgk extension
Enabling highlight extension
Enabling inotify extension
Creating config file /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/hgext.rc with new version
Usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f|-p]
update-python-modules: error: Trying to overwrite hgext/inotify/common.py which
is already provided by /usr/share/python-support/mercurial-common
dpkg: error processing mercurial (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mercurial
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up mercurial (1.0.1-5.1) ...
Enabling hgk extension
Enabling highlight extension
Enabling inotify extension
Usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f|-p]
update-python-modules: error: Trying to overwrite hgext/inotify/common.py which
is already provided by /usr/share/python-support/mercurial-common
dpkg: error processing mercurial (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
mercurial
Press return to continue.
This looks like a Python issue, and not mercurial, but I could be in
err.
$ dpkg -L mercurial{,-common} | grep common.py
/usr/lib/python-support/mercurial/python2.4/hgext/inotify/common.py
/usr/share/python-support/mercurial-common/hgext/convert/common.py
/usr/share/python-support/mercurial-common/hgext/inotify/common.py
/usr/share/python-support/mercurial-common/mercurial/hgweb/common.py
I don't see anything unusual here with no overlapping files.
** Changed in: mercurial (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400236
Title:
Mercurial conflicts with python (jaunty sparc at least)
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