Verbiste includes /usr/share/locale/locale.alias in edgy amd64

[Roshan Shariff]

Trying to install it on amd64 gives this error:

Unpacking verbiste (from .../verbiste_0.1.14-1.1build1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/verbiste_0.1.14-1.1build1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/locale.alias', which is also in package locales
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/verbiste_0.1.14-1.1build1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
...

/usr/share/locale.alias is present in the data.tar.gz of the amd64 package but not the i386 package.

[Roshan Shariff (roshan.shariff)]

Strangely enough, the file /usr/share/locale/locale.alias doesn't seem to be part of the package, as shown by http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=verbiste&version=edgy&arch=amd64

The only file in the package in the /usr/share/locale/ directory is /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/verbiste.mo

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

I can install it just fine. This alone does not mean this is not a bug for sure.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Sorry, mine's not an AMD64.

[Slight Slightly (slight--deactivatedaccount)]

Can confirm this doesn't happen in non-amd64 version, there's no /usr/share/locale/locale.alias file included in the 32 bit package, looks amd64-specific.

[Roshan Shariff (roshan.shariff)]

verbiste 0.1.14-1.2 should be synced from Debian as it fixes this bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

new version has been synced from Debian