[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#501648: Bug#501648: Bug#501648: reminder: octave3.0-common must conflict with older octave3.0 packages

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:57:40PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-10-09 10:06]:
> 
> > Package: octave3.0
> > Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > This is a reminder for myself, as current upgrades to experimental packages
> > fail:
> > 
> > Unpacking octave3.0-common (from octave3.0-common_3.0.3-1_all.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing octave3.0-common_3.0.3-1_all.deb (--install):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/enscript/hl/octave.st', which is also in package octave3.0
> > 
> > I won't address this now, though: let's first get Lenny out of the door and
> > remove the 2.1/2.9 cruft from the control files.
> 
> This will cease to be a problem when enscript 1.6.4-13 will be uploaded to
> unstable.  In this version, a patch of mine [1] has been added [2], such
> that octave.st will be provided by enscript.

Yes, I saw your patch after filing the bug. However, I think that
a) Enscript is dead upstream (latest release in 2003)
b) It's latest Debian change was in 2007.

So, we probably shouldn't count on enscript fixing that for us.

	Thomas