Bug#585837: salome-dev and libsalome-dev: error when trying to install together

[Adam C Powell IV]

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: treinen at 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
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