package sun-javadb-client (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/java/derbyclient.jar', which is also in package libderbyclient-java 10.10.1.1-1

[Chris West]

Pretty clean system, fresh install then just dist-upgraded a couple of times.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: sun-javadb-client (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-1.16-generic 3.13.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 4 22:07:19 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:sun-javadb-client:(not installed):trying to overwrite '/usr/share/java/derbyclient.jar', which is also in package libderbyclient-java 10.10.1.1-1
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/java/derbyclient.jar', which is also in package libderbyclient-java 10.10.1.1-1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-10 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140110)
SourcePackage: sun-javadb
Title: package sun-javadb-client (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/java/derbyclient.jar', which is also in package libderbyclient-java 10.10.1.1-1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package derby - 10.13.1.1-2ubuntu1

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derby (10.13.1.1-2ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Add transitional packages to take over unmaintained sun-javadb
  * Add Breaks/Replaces against sun-javadb packages that shipped
    the same filenames (LP: #1276353)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Dec 2016 12:22:52 -0500

[Adam Bell (arbell)]

This appears to still be an issue with the Xenial package, though it also appears to have been corrected by the Bionic package. Please update this bug report if there are any plans to backport the corrected package to Xenial.