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package python-twisted-core 8.2.0-2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pyshared/twisted/plugins/init.py', which is also in package python-twisted-calendarserver

Bug #419940 reported by Tom Bamford on 2009-08-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #410098: Installing python-nevow breaks twisted trial. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	twisted (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

python-twisted-calendarserver is installed as a dependency of the calendarserver package.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 27 15:43:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pyshared/twisted/plugins/__init__.py', which is also in package python-twisted-calendarserver
Package: python-twisted-core 8.2.0-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
SourcePackage: twisted
Title: package python-twisted-core 8.2.0-2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pyshared/twisted/plugins/__init__.py', which is also in package python-twisted-calendarserver
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic i686

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Tom Bamford (tombamford) wrote on 2009-08-27:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (907 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (47.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (122.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko) wrote on 2009-11-28:

This seems to be related to #410098 -- twisted installs a directory named "plugins" but it isn't a Python package, it is just a directory. Some other tools seem to create an __init__.py file and put it into this directory sometimes, and that seems to cause a problem. Or maybe I got it all backwards. Anyway, something is messed up with regard to files named "twisted/plugins/__init__.py" in Debian and Ubuntu.