Bug#348910: perl-tk: undeclared overlap with libtk-png-perl

Carlo Segre segre at iit.edu
Fri Jan 20 00:10:25 UTC 2006


It looks like Tk:PNG has been included in Perl:Tk.  Perhaps the 
libtk-png-perl package needs to be expunged.

Carlo


On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Michael Schultheiss wrote:

> Yann Dirson wrote:
>> Package: perl-tk
>> Version: 1:804.027-2
>> Severity: serious
>>
>> (Reading database ... 130044 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to replace perl-tk 1:800.025-2 (using .../perl-tk_1%3a804.027-2_i386.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement perl-tk ...
>> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-tk_1%3a804.027-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
>>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Tk/PNG/PNG.so', which is also in package libtk-png-perl
>> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-tk_1%3a804.027-2_i386.deb
>
> Should perl-tk Provide/Replace/Conflict with libtk-png-perl?
>
>

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