[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#491457: bash-completion: trying to overwrite `/etc/bash_completion', which is also in package bash

[Luk Claes]

tags 491457 +unreproducible
thanks

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:37:55AM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 20080705

> I have two systems running sid which couldn't install the latest
> bash-completion, with:
> 
> > sudo apt-get install bash

> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   bash-completion
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   bash-completion
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.

> Unpacking bash-completion (from .../bash-completion_20080705_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_20080705_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/etc/bash_completion', which is also in package bash
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_20080705_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> One of them seemed to fix itself when I did a purge of
> bash_completion, and then reinstalled the same latest version in sid.
> The other hasn't.  I just tracked it down to it still being listed as
> a conffile in /var/lib/dpkg/status for the bash package.  Should there
> be a method in one of the packages to clear the conffile status from
> the bash package and let bash-completion take it over?

There is no way to clear the conffile status of the file, though dpkg
recognises that the conffile status is obsolete when I try to install
bash-completion when latest bash is installed which succeeds without any
errors. 

Does /var/lib/dpkg/bash.conffiles and /var/lib/dpkg/bash.list or one of 
them include /etc/bash_completion?

Apparently something went wrong before the above installation try as it
mentions '81 not fully installed or removed.', might that be related?

Cheers

Luk