On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:36:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> On a system with ???ledger??? 0:2.6.2-2 installed, the ???cpio??? 2.11-1
> package fails to unpack:
> 
> =====
> Preparing to replace cpio 2.10-1 (using .../cpio_2.11-1_powerpc.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement cpio ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cpio_2.11-1_powerpc.deb 
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/info/dir.gz', which is also in package 
> ledger 0:2.6.2-2
> =====
> 
> It seems unlikely these files are fungible. One or both of these files
> needs to be renamed in the Debian package to allow for installing both
> packages simultaneously.

Yeah, I'd say that's going to be ledger's fault -- or, at least, no less
than cpio's (or any other package).

I guess I'm about to learn a lot more about info pages than I ever wanted
to...

- Matt



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