'apt-get install freebsd-manpages' fails trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man2/clock_gettime.2.gz, provided by manpages-dev

[Kai Stempfle]

installing package freebsd-manpages fails, because the package tries to overwrite /usr/share/man/man2/clock_gettime.2.gz which is also provided by the package manpages-dev.
Installing is only possible by running 'dpkg --force-overwrite -i freebsd-manpages_6.2-1_all.deb'

test case:
install manpages-dev
afterwards install freebsd-manpages

Ubuntu release info:
# lsb_release -cdr
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

Package info:
# dpkg -s freebsd-manpages
Package: freebsd-manpages
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 8048
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 6.2-1
Suggests: man-browser
Conflicts: fdutils, ipchains, opie-client, linux-manual-2.6.18
Description: Manual pages for a GNU/kFreeBSD system
 This package contains a selection of manual pages from FreeBSD that are
 useful on a GNU/kFreeBSD system:
  2 = System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
  4 = Special files (usually found in /dev)
  9 = Kernel routines
Original-Maintainer: Gürkan Sengün <email address hidden>

apt-output:
# apt-get install freebsd-manpages
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  freebsd-manpages
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2845kB of archives.
After this operation, 8241kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 114111 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking freebsd-manpages (from .../freebsd-manpages_6.2-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/freebsd-manpages_6.2-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man2/clock_gettime.2.gz', which is also in package manpages-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/freebsd-manpages_6.2-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Alex Ruddick (alexrudd0)]

I did it backwards (installed freebsd-manpages, then manpages-dev), but can easily confirm.

[Lenin (gagarin)]

i think this got fixed once and for all with the latest freebsd-manpages in debian sid...

[Andrea Gasparini (gaspa)]

This bug is fixed in debian ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367182 ), so in intrepid doesn't need to be considered.