On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:51:46PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > On upgrading texlive in Sid, which no longer provides a dvidvi binary > and now Recommends the dvidvi package instead, I got the following:
> Selecting previously deselected package dvidvi. > Unpacking dvidvi (from .../dvidvi_1.0-8etch1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dvidvi_1.0-8etch1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dvidvi', which is also in package > texlive-extra-utils > This happens because at the time dvidvi was unpacked, the older version > of texlive-extra-utils was still installed. This is the companion bug > to #411537. > The issue could be worked around if dvidvi had a line like > Replaces: texlive-extra-utils (<< 2005.dfsg.2-12) > in its control file. Yes, that's right. I uploaded version 1.0-8etch2 with that fix. Please consider for unblocking. > If this fix could be targeted for etch-proposed-updates (e.g. version > number 1.0-8etch2) and if that version of dvidvi, and version > 2005.dfsg.2-12 of texlive-bin, make it into Etch, then it will be > possible to upgrade texlive-extra-utils from earlier versions of Sid > or Etch with no troubles. I uploaded to unstable, no reason to use testing-proposed-updates. > (Severity "important" rather than RC, since this issue won't affect > people upgrading to Etch or Sid from Sarge where there are no texlive > packages. X-Debbug-CC'ed to release and tex-maint teams.) -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
