[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#520460: liblapack-doc: tries to overwrite file owned by qdbm-util

[Ralf Treinen]

Subject: liblapack-doc: tries to overwrite file owned by qdbm-util
Package: qdbm-util,liblapack-doc
Severity: serious
User: treinen at debian.org
Usertags: edos-file-overwrite

Date: 2009-03-19
Architecture: amd64
Distribution: sid
Command: apt-get --assume-yes --allow-unauthenticated install qdbm-util liblapack-doc


Hi,

automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
detected the following problem:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libqdbm14
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  liblapack-doc libqdbm14 qdbm-util
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4087kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  liblapack-doc libqdbm14 qdbm-util
Authentication warning overridden.
Get:1 http://localhost sid/main liblapack-doc 3.2.0-2 [3845kB]
Get:2 http://localhost sid/main libqdbm14 1.8.74-1.4 [142kB]
Get:3 http://localhost sid/main qdbm-util 1.8.74-1.4 [99.8kB]
Fetched 4087kB in 7s (574kB/s)
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Selecting previously deselected package liblapack-doc.
(Reading database ... 8099 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking liblapack-doc (from .../liblapack-doc_3.2.0-2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libqdbm14.
Unpacking libqdbm14 (from .../libqdbm14_1.8.74-1.4_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package qdbm-util.
Unpacking qdbm-util (from .../qdbm-util_1.8.74-1.4_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/qdbm-util_1.8.74-1.4_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/dptsv.1.gz', which is also in package liblapack-doc
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/qdbm-util_1.8.74-1.4_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail. Possible
solutions are to have the two packages conflict, to rename the common
file in one of the two packages, or to remove the file from one
package and have this package depend on the other package. File
diversions or a Replace relation are another possibility.

This bug is assigned to both packages. If you, the maintainers of
the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package.

-Ralf.