[DRE-maint] Bug#809765: ruby-racc and racc: error when trying to install together

Antonio Terceiro terceiro at debian.org
Mon Jan 4 15:15:40 UTC 2016


Control: reassign -1 ruby-racc
Control: found -1 ruby-racc/1.4.14-1
Control: retitle -1 duplicates existing `racc` package

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 08:53:59PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Package: racc,ruby-racc
> Version: racc/1.4.12-1
> Version: ruby-racc/1.4.14-1
> Severity: serious
> User: treinen at debian.org
> Usertags: edos-file-overwrite
> 
> Date: 2016-01-03
> Architecture: amd64
> Distribution: sid
> 
[...]
> Unpacking ruby-racc (1.4.14-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ruby-racc_1.4.14-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/racc.rb', which is also in package racc 1.4.12-1
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-6) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/ruby-racc_1.4.14-1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

`ruby-racc` is a new package that duplicates `racc` which is in Debian
for ages.

ruby-racc should be removed.
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