[Python-modules-team] Bug#866663: python3-cairo: It seems to conflict with debconf

[Luis Henriques]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:50:34 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Manolo_D=C3=ADaz?=
<diaz.manolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: python3-cairo
> Version: 1.10.0+dfsg-5+b2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 7.4
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> This happens when I try to upgrade python3-cairo:
> 
> (Reading database ... 254270 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../python3-cairo_1.10.0+dfsg-5+b2_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking python3-cairo (1.10.0+dfsg-5+b2) over (1.10.0+dfsg-5+b1) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/python3-cairo_1.10.0+dfsg-5+b2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py',
which is also in package debconf 1.5.61
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-cairo_1.10.0+dfsg-5+b2_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 

I can confirm this bug -- I'm seeing exactly the same conflict.

Cheers,
-- 
Luis

> 
> Kind Regards,
> Manolo D
-az
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.0
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.11.8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked
> to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages python3-cairo depends on:
> ii  libc6      2.24-12
> ii  libcairo2  1.14.8-1
> ii  python3    3.5.3-1
> 
> python3-cairo recommends no packages.
> 
> python3-cairo suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information