[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#557495: [treinen at free.fr: Bug#557495: libtowitoko-dev and libctapimkt0-dev: error when trying to install together]

Sun Feb 14 18:41:24 UTC 2010

Hi,

I would like to remember those people involved in the programs /
packaging that I need some hint to find a reasonable solution.  Is there
any chance that one of the authors might find a different name to
prevent a name clash?  The (not so good) alternative would be to
move the header files to a subdirectory of /usr/include.  So please
raise your voice to this problem if you want to see your package in
the next Debian release.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:01:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I realised that there are all in all three packages in Debian which
> are acceccing a CT-API and providing a file ctapi.h:
> 
> $ apt-file search ctapi.h
> libctapimkt0-dev: /usr/include/ctapi.h
> libopenct1-dev: /usr/include/openct/ctapi.h
> libtowitoko-dev: /usr/include/ctapi.h
> 
> While libopenct1-dev uses a subdirectory and thus does not create
> a conflict to the other two I wonder how to solve this conflict
> reasonably.  The upstream author of libctapimkt0 told me that in
> principle ctapi.h would have the same content and thus all libraries
> might be able to share the same file.  If this is true this would
> IMHO the best solution - the only remaining question would be from
> which source this file should be taken and into which common
> devel package it should go to enable the other package depend from
> it.
> 
> The other solution would be to move libctapimkt0-dev header files into a
> subdirectory or if this makes no sense to simply conclict with
> libtowitoko-dev - but I have no idea whether this is reasonable or
> needed.
> 
> I admit I have no idea about this CT-API at all and really need to relay
> on your expertise in this question.  For me ths current solution looks
> quite confusing and it should be solved in a reasonable way.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
>  
> > ----- Forwarded message from Ralf Treinen <treinen at free.fr> -----
> > 
> > To: submit at bugs.debian.org
> > From: Ralf Treinen <treinen at free.fr>
> > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:25:15 +0100
> > X-Spam_score: -3.6
> > Subject: Bug#557495: libtowitoko-dev and
> > 	libctapimkt0-dev: error when trying to install together
> > 
> > Package: libctapimkt0-dev,libtowitoko-dev
> > Version: libctapimkt0-dev/1.0.1-1
> > Version: libtowitoko-dev/2.0.7-8+b1
> > Severity: serious
> > User: treinen at debian.org
> > Usertags: edos-file-overwrite
> > 
> > Date: 2009-11-22
> > 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:
> > 
> > 
> > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
> >   libc-dev-bin linux-libc-dev libc6-dev libctapimkt0 libctapimkt0-dev
> >   libtowitoko2 libtowitoko-dev
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > Authentication warning overridden.
> > Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
> > Selecting previously deselected package libc-dev-bin.
> > (Reading database ... 10432 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking libc-dev-bin (from .../libc-dev-bin_2.10.1-7_amd64.deb) ...
> > Selecting previously deselected package linux-libc-dev.
> > Unpacking linux-libc-dev (from .../linux-libc-dev_2.6.31-2_amd64.deb) ...
> > Selecting previously deselected package libc6-dev.
> > Unpacking libc6-dev (from .../libc6-dev_2.10.1-7_amd64.deb) ...
> > Selecting previously deselected package libctapimkt0.
> > Unpacking libctapimkt0 (from .../libctapimkt0_1.0.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
> > Selecting previously deselected package libctapimkt0-dev.
> > Unpacking libctapimkt0-dev (from .../libctapimkt0-dev_1.0.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
> > Selecting previously deselected package libtowitoko2.
> > Unpacking libtowitoko2 (from .../libtowitoko2_2.0.7-8+b1_amd64.deb) ...
> > Selecting previously deselected package libtowitoko-dev.
> > Unpacking libtowitoko-dev (from .../libtowitoko-dev_2.0.7-8+b1_amd64.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libtowitoko-dev_2.0.7-8+b1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite '/usr/include/ctapi.h', which is also in package libctapimkt0-dev 0:1.0.1-1
> > Processing triggers for man-db ...
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/libtowitoko-dev_2.0.7-8+b1_amd64.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > 
> > 
> > This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violate
> > section 7.6.1 of the policy. Possible solutions are to have the two
> > packages conflict, to rename the common file in one of the two
> > packages, or to remove the file from one package and have this package
> > depend on the other package. File diversions or a Replace relation are
> > another possibility.
> > 
> > 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/ctapi.h
> >   
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > -Ralf.
> > 
> > PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors
> > of this kind see http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/.
> > 
> > 
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