> > There seemed to be a conflict over which package owns this file - > > /usr/share/man/man1/gsnd.1.gz > > gs-common, or some other package. I can't remember, think it was 'gs'. > > I had to remove 'gs' and 'gs-common' I believe.
I went over to packages.d.o and ran a few queries.
dist package version filename
woody gs 6.53-3 usr/share/man/man1/gs-gnu.1.gz
sarge gs 8.01-5 doesn't have this.
it's a dummy package for gs-gpl.
sarge gs-gpl 8.01-5 usr/share/man/man1/gs-gpl.1.gz
is only file in /usr/man
sarge gs-common 0.3.7 usr/share/man/de/man1/gsnd.1.gz
woody gs-common 0.3.3 doesn't have this file
woody gs-aladdin 6.50-4 usr/share/man/man1/gsnd.1.gz
I can't find any conflicts. I think this is a corner case and won't
affect anyone else.
The machine I was installing had been running sarge/testing but had
not been upgraded for a long time. I made a copy of the package list
and then blew away the hard disk, and installed with d-i netinst.
I got base on the machine then installed the list of packages I had
saved. It seems likely the gs-XXX rearrangement happened sometime
between the last update (6 months back?) and the reinstallation.
I just tried now and I was able to
apt-get install gs gs-common
with no problem. I've attached the output of apt-show-versions for info.
If I can reproduce the problem I saw, I'll file a separate bug.
Vince
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