package jigzo-data 0.6.1-4 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/games/jigzo/font/charmap.jpg', which is also in package jigzo 0:0.6.1-2

[Mohd Farimi Ab Rahman]

:: DESCRIPTION ::
Can't dist-upgrade from jigzo 0.6.1-2 to jigzo-data 0.6.1-4 because the file '/usr/share/games/jigzo/font/charmap.jpg' is in both packages and jigzo 0.6.1-4 depends on jigzo-data.

:: TEST CASE ::
in 10.04

black:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/jigzo_0.6.1-2_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package jigzo.
Unpacking jigzo (from /tmp/jigzo_0.6.1-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up jigzo (0.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
black:/tmp$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  jigzo-data
The following packages will be upgraded:
  jigzo
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4,083kB of archives.
After this operation, 49.2kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Unpacking jigzo-data (from .../jigzo-data_0.6.1-4_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/jigzo-data_0.6.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/games/jigzo/font/charmap.jpg', which is also in package jigzo 0:0.6.1-2
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace jigzo 0.6.1-2 (using .../jigzo_0.6.1-4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement jigzo ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/jigzo-data_0.6.1-4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
black: /tmp

Binary package hint: jigzo

Just reporting. Doing apt-get dist-upgrade and got this error

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 26 21:20:00 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/games/jigzo/font/charmap.jpg', which is also in package jigzo 0:0.6.1-2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: jigzo-data 0.6.1-4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: jigzo
Title: package jigzo-data 0.6.1-4 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/games/jigzo/font/charmap.jpg', which is also in package jigzo 0:0.6.1-2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

This is confirmed when upgrading from jigzo 0.6.1-2 to 0.6.1-4
The package has been split in jigzo and jigzo-data in 0.6.1-3 and the error occurs if jigzo-data is upgraded before jigzo.

[Elías Alejandro (ealmdz)]

new version under Debian jigzo 0.6.1-5, it could fix this bug. Thanks.

[Angel Abad (angelabad)]

Hi, now in all ubuntu supported distros jigzo version is 0.6.1-4. So, this bug is fix released.

Regards,