when whois and mkpasswd are build locally they have .mo file conflicts

[Michael Vogt]

Binary package hint: whois

When whois is build locally it will conflicts with mkpasswd because the .mo files are not stripped out:

$ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result//mkpasswd_5.0.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 326590 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mkpasswd (from .../mkpasswd_5.0.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/pbuilder/result//mkpasswd_5.0.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo', which is also in package whois 5.0.5ubuntu1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/pbuilder/result//mkpasswd_5.0.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The line in debian/rules:
        cd po && $(MAKE) install BASEDIR=$D && $(MAKE) install BASEDIR=$W
is responsible for it. Ideally mkpasswd would get its own NLS_CAT_NAME or just a copy of the whois.mo (not ideal as it will duplicate some strings).

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

There are several options to fix this issue:
 1. Add a specific catalog for mkpasswd.
 2. Create a whois-common package to share the po files.
 3. Don't split the packages and sync from Debian (and reopen bug 284416).

The easiest solution seem to be 3: mkpasswd would be part of whois again, we'd be in sync with Debian.

Solutions 1 and 2 would require an bigger delta with Debian. Instead the package split should be suggested in Debian.

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Unfortunately, we can't just sync from debian because we published a separate mkpasswd package during the lucid cycle and thus people upgrading will see the failure in bug 632791.