[Parted-maintainers] Bug#566930: Bug#566930: gnu-fdisk: fails to upgrade (diversion clash)

[Xavier Oswald]

On 17:32 Mon 25 Jan     , Denis Laxalde wrote:
> Package: gnu-fdisk
> Version: 1.2.4-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> (Version pseudo-header manually corrected)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Updrade of gnu-fdisk fails: 
> 
> Preparing to replace gnu-fdisk 1.2.3-2 (using .../gnu-fdisk_1.2.4-1_amd64.deb) ...
> dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/share/man/man8/cfdisk.8.gz to /usr/share/man/man8/cfdisk.distrib.8.gz by gnu-fdisk' clashes with `diversion of /usr/share/man/man8/cfdisk.8.gz to /usr/share/man/man8/cfdisk.8.gz.distrib by gnu-fdisk'
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnu-fdisk_1.2.4-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/gnu-fdisk_1.2.4-1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Hmm :/

That's strange since I tested to upgrade from the older version

Ill investigate tomorow early.

Thanks for reporting this.
Greetings,
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