Bug#661590: doc-rfc-misc: tries to overwrite /usr/share/doc/RFC/links/rfc1145.txt.gz in doc-rfc-others 20100731-1

February 28th, 2012 - 05:30 am ET by Vincent Lefevre | Report spam
Package: doc-rfc-misc
Version: 20120225-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.6.1

When upgrading:

Preparing to replace doc-rfc-misc 20100731-1 (using .../doc-rfc-misc_20120225-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement doc-rfc-misc ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/doc-rfc-misc_20120225-1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/RFC/links/rfc1145.txt.gz', which is also in package doc-rfc-others 20100731-1

doc-rfc-misc lists:

Replaces: doc-rfc (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-0001-0999 (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-1000-1999 (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-2000-2999 (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-3000-3999 (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-experimental (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-fyi-bcp (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-old-std (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-std (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-std-proposed (<< 20120225-1)

but doc-rfc-others is missing.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-po...s-replaces
says that "Breaks" should also be used.

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash




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#1 Iustin Pop
February 29th, 2012 - 01:40 pm ET | Report spam

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:16:20AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Package: doc-rfc-misc
Version: 20120225-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.6.1

When upgrading:

Preparing to replace doc-rfc-misc 20100731-1 (using .../doc-rfc-misc_20120225-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement doc-rfc-misc ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/doc-rfc-misc_20120225-1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/RFC/links/rfc1145.txt.gz', which is also in package doc-rfc-others 20100731-1

doc-rfc-misc lists:

Replaces: doc-rfc (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-0001-0999 (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-1000-1999 (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-2000-2999 (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-3000-3999 (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-experimental (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-fyi-bcp (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-old-std (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-std (<< 20120225-1), doc-rfc-std-proposed (<< 20120225-1)

but doc-rfc-others is missing.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-po...s-replaces
says that "Breaks" should also be used.



Argh, that's what I get for not running piuparts.

Thanks, I'll fix it, but I'm traveling, it might take a week, sorry.

iustin






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