tags 585837 pending thanks On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 10:22 +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Package: libsalome-dev,salome-dev > Version: libsalome-dev/5.1.3-8 > Version: salome-dev/5.1.3-9 > Severity: serious > User: trei...@debian.org > Usertags: edos-file-overwrite > > Date: 2010-06-14 > Architecture: amd64 > Distribution: sid > > Hi, > > automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the > same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has > detected the following problem:
[snip] > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/salome-dev_5.1.3-9_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates > sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would > consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming > or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the > circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file > diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a > last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual > Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and > diversions should only be used when packages provide different > implementations for the same functionality. > > Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages > (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be > slightly out of sync): > > /usr/include/salome/AbstractEdge.hxx [snip] > This bug is assigned to both packages. If you, the maintainers of > the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will > resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. Thanks for pointing this out. I got some of the conflicts, but forgot this one. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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