Control: severity -1 serious
Control: retitle -1 dpkg: Failed upgrade due to file conflicts with manpages-it

Hi!

On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 16:58:10 +0200, cosimo morelli wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.16.10
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software

This severity is way too high, lowered.

> This is what aptitude tells me
> 
> Preparativi per sostituire dpkg v.1.16.10 (utilizzando
> ..../archives/dpkg_1.17.0_i386.deb)...
> Estrazione del sostituto di dpkg...
> dpkg: errore nell'elaborare /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.17.0_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  tentata sovrascrittura di "/usr/share/man/it/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz" presente
> anche nel pacchetto manpages-it 2.80-3
> dpkg-deb: errore: il sottoprocesso paste è stato terminato dal segnale (Pipe
> interrotta)
> Elaborazione dei trigger per man-db...
> Si sono verificati degli errori nell'elaborazione:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.17.0_i386.deb
[…]
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Errore durante l'installazione di un pacchetto. Tentativo di ripristino:

This has been reported (in 711647) and I've already fixed it in git,
will be included in 1.17.1, which I'd like to wait some days before an
upload in case there's some other regression.

> P.S. even apt-get -f install is not able to resolve the situation... :)
> P.P.S sorry for my english

For now there's some workarounds you could use to “fix” the situation.
You could remove manpages-it (which I've been told is pretty outdated
anyway, last upload in 2008), or you could force dpkg to overwrite the
files with:

  # dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.17.0_i386.deb

which in this case is safe because the new dpkg version will just take
over those files. Or you could hold dpkg until either a fixed
manpages-it (see 711650, 717974) or dpkg version is uploaded.

Thanks,
Guillem


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