I looked a bit into this issue, and the good news is that I cannot reproduce this error with version 6 on Ubuntu 14.10. (As a side note, I'm not quite sure why the version number is a single digit, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdb-arm-none-eabi, presumably the prefix is added by whatever gdb version is used?)
Looking at the list of files installed, we can see that man1/gdb.1.gz is indeed no longer installed: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/gdb-arm-none-eabi/filelist http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/amd64/gdb-arm-none-eabi/filelist Since the issue is fixed in a newer release, there will be a patch which can take care of it. It probably be feasible to get the fix for this from the version in 14.10 and add it to/release it for 14.04 as well as an SRU (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for details.). Looking at the changes for this package at http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/gdb-arm-none-eabi.git/log/, I have to admit I don't know whether "Remove empty manuals and fix installman target for arm-none-eabi-run" would be suffecient, or if "Workaround for upstream manpages stripped" needs to be included as well. These are the only two changes which mention manpages, and the rest appear unrelated, but for a developer preparing an SRU it would be nice to know whether only one or both are needed. Does someone know? :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1267680 Title: package gdb-arm-none-eabi (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gdb.1.gz', which is also in package gdb 7.6.50.20131218-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdb/+bug/1267680/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
