Bug#450916: file conflicts between packages

Michael Ablassmeier abi at grinser.de
Mon Nov 12 07:15:26 UTC 2007


Package: libpar-packer-perl, libpar-perl
Severity: serious
Justification: policy violation

hi,

both par and libpar-perl do ship `/usr/share/man/man1/parldyn.1p.gz' but
neither conflict or add a diversion, thus fail to be installed in the same
environment:

 > Unpacking libpar-packer-perl (from libpar-packer-perl_0.976-1_amd64.deb) ...
 > dpkg: error processing libpar-packer-perl_0.976-1_amd64.deb (--install):
 >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/parldyn.1p.gz', which is also in package libpar-perl
 > Errors were encountered while processing:
 >  libpar-packer-perl_0.976-1_amd64.deb

bye,
    - michael





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