[Debichem-devel] node-babel-cli: /usr/bin/babel is already provided by openbabel

[Pirate Praveen]

[copying openbabel maintainers]

On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:23:14 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install
> because it tries to overwrite other packages files.
> 
> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package node-babel-cli.
>   Preparing to unpack .../62-node-babel-cli_6.25.0+dfsg-2_all.deb ...
>   Unpacking node-babel-cli (6.25.0+dfsg-2) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-J0N6hl/62-node-babel-cli_6.25.0+dfsg-2_all.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/babel', which is also in package openbabel 2.3.2+dfsg-3+b2
>   dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-J0N6hl/62-node-babel-cli_6.25.0+dfsg-2_all.deb
> 
> 
> This does *not* look like adding Breaks+Replaces would be the correct solution.

Hi Michael, Daniel,

Would you consider renaming babel command line to openbabel as babel is
a popular build tool in JavaScript which I'd like to provide via
node-babel-cli? If not I'll rename babel to babeljs.

Thanks
Praveen

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