On 2009-07-20 09:21 +0200, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 06:58:43AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> Retrying succeeded, so a bumping the versioned "Replaces" on groff-base
>> to (<< 1.20.1-1) should solve the problem.
>
> Actually, no - if you look carefully at the two 1.20.1-1 .debs you'll
> see that *both* of them contain the /usr/share/groff/current symlink,
> which is clearly an error (this happened because upstream added code to
> install that symlink and I didn't notice).

Well, groff-base (but not groff) 1.18.1.1-22 also had the symlink, but
it was pointing to a _different_ directory.  Since version 1.14.6, dpkg
does not treat multiple symlinks to the _same_ directory as a file
conflict, so groff could be upgraded after groff-base 1.20.1-1 was
installed.

Sven



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