package kubuntu-firefox-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package firefox 0:9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

Bug #907666 reported by Ashish
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
Lucid
Fix Released
Medium
Micah Gersten
Maverick
Fix Released
Medium
Micah Gersten

Bug Description

It came automatically during "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop"

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kubuntu-firefox-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-37.81-generic 2.6.32.49+drm33.21
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 22 12:30:03 2011
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package firefox 0:9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: kubuntu-firefox-installer
Title: package kubuntu-firefox-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package firefox 0:9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

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Ashish (ashishyadav26) wrote :
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. This is actually a bug in Firefox as we lost the Replaces on kubuntu-firefox-installer again. Please report any other issues you may find.

Changed in kubuntu-firefox-installer (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Micah Gersten (micahg)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
affects: kubuntu-firefox-installer (Ubuntu) → firefox (Ubuntu)
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Maverick):
assignee: nobody → Micah Gersten (micahg)
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Lucid):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
assignee: Micah Gersten (micahg) → nobody
status: In Progress → Invalid
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: New → In Progress
tags: added: regression-proposed
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee: nobody → Micah Gersten (micahg)
Micah Gersten (micahg)
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Micah Gersten (micahg)
tags: added: maverick verification-needed
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Tested the kubuntu-firefox-installer on lucid i386 and maverick amd64 and it completed successfully without error

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.10.2

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firefox (9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.10.2) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Fix LP: #907666 - readd missing kubuntu-firefox-installer Replaces
    - update debian/control

  [ Micah Gersten <email address hidden> ]
  * Fix LP: #917529 - Make sure new transitional packages have a versioned
    dependency on Firefox so as to not break Firefox during partial upgrades
    - update debian/control{,.in}

firefox (9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.10.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream stable release (FIREFOX_9_0_1_BUILD1) (LP: #904594)

firefox (9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.10.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream stable release (FIREFOX_9_0_BUILD1)

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Install the Apport hook as a source package hook
    - rename debian/apport/firefox.py.in => debian/apport/source_firefox.py.in
    - update debian/firefox.install.in
    - update debian/rules
  * Don't unconditionally overwrite SourcePackage when reporting bugs with
    the nightly apport hook
    - update debian/apport/source_firefox.py.in
  * Set "Channel = Unavailable" if channel-prefs.js doesn't contain a
    channel name
    - update debian/apport/source_firefox.py.in
  * Ensure that create-tarball can handle there not being a locale blacklist
    - update debian/build/create-tarball.py
  * Drop xpt.py and xpidl from $LIBDIR. xpidl is gone, and xpt.py isn't included
    there in the upstream SDK
    - update debian/firefox-dev.links.in
  * Fix LP: #901838 - Ugly busy pointer, due to libxcursor no longer matching
    the cursor bitmap to a nice themed pointer
    - add debian/patches/fix-cursor-handling.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Don't disable our bundled addons on upgrade
    - update debian/vendor.js
  * Modify the UA string to add "Ubuntu" to the platform component
    - add debian/patches/ubuntu-ua-string-changes.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
    - update debian/rules
  * Move custom scripts to debian/build
    - move debian/get-xpi-id.py to debian/build/get-xpi-id.py
    - move debian/refresh-supported-locales.pl to
       debian/build/refresh-supported-locales.pl
    - move debian/extract-file.py to debian/build/extract-file.py
    - update debian/rules
    - move debian/testsuite.mk to debian/build/testsuite.mk
  * Dropped patches that are obsolete or fixed upstream:
    - remove debian/patches/lp512615_cairo_lcd_filter.patch
    - remove debian/patches/lp185622_system_path_default_browser.patch
    - remove debian/patches/bz386904_config_rules_install_dist_files.patch
    - remove debian/patches/bz532198_lp488354_ns_invokebyindex_not_thumb2_safe.patch
    - remove debian/patches/bzXXX_libxul_sdk_nspr.patch
    - remove debian/patches/drop_bz418016.patch
    - remove debian/patches/firefox-fsh
    - remove debian/patches/firefox-profilename
    - remove debian/patches/ubuntu_no_app_updates.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Refresh patches:
    - update debian/patches/firefox-kde.patch
    - update debian/patches/mozilla-kde.patch
    - update debia...

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
Download full text (18.2 KiB)

This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2

---------------
firefox (9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Fix LP: #907666 - readd missing kubuntu-firefox-installer Replaces
    - update debian/control

  [ Micah Gersten <email address hidden> ]
  * Fix LP: #917529 - Make sure new transitional packages have a versioned
    dependency on Firefox so as to not break Firefox during partial upgrades
    - update debian/control{,.in}

firefox (9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream stable release (FIREFOX_9_0_1_BUILD1) (LP: #904594)

firefox (9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream stable release (FIREFOX_9_0_BUILD1)

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Install the Apport hook as a source package hook
    - rename debian/apport/firefox.py.in => debian/apport/source_firefox.py.in
    - update debian/firefox.install.in
    - update debian/rules
  * Don't unconditionally overwrite SourcePackage when reporting bugs with
    the nightly apport hook
    - update debian/apport/source_firefox.py.in
  * Set "Channel = Unavailable" if channel-prefs.js doesn't contain a
    channel name
    - update debian/apport/source_firefox.py.in
  * Ensure that create-tarball can handle there not being a locale blacklist
    - update debian/build/create-tarball.py
  * Drop xpt.py and xpidl from $LIBDIR. xpidl is gone, and xpt.py isn't included
    there in the upstream SDK
    - update debian/firefox-dev.links.in
  * Fix LP: #901838 - Ugly busy pointer, due to libxcursor no longer matching
    the cursor bitmap to a nice themed pointer
    - add debian/patches/fix-cursor-handling.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Don't disable our bundled addons on upgrade
    - update debian/vendor.js
  * Modify the UA string to add "Ubuntu" to the platform component
    - add debian/patches/ubuntu-ua-string-changes.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
    - update debian/rules
  * Move custom scripts to debian/build
    - move debian/get-xpi-id.py to debian/build/get-xpi-id.py
    - move debian/refresh-supported-locales.pl to
       debian/build/refresh-supported-locales.pl
    - move debian/extract-file.py to debian/build/extract-file.py
    - update debian/rules
    - move debian/testsuite.mk to debian/build/testsuite.mk
  * Dropped patches that are obsolete or fixed upstream:
    - remove debian/patches/lp512615_cairo_lcd_filter.patch
    - remove debian/patches/lp185622_system_path_default_browser.patch
    - remove debian/patches/bz386904_config_rules_install_dist_files.patch
    - remove debian/patches/bz532198_lp488354_ns_invokebyindex_not_thumb2_safe.patch
    - remove debian/patches/bzXXX_libxul_sdk_nspr.patch
    - remove debian/patches/drop_bz418016.patch
    - remove debian/patches/firefox-fsh
    - remove debian/patches/firefox-profilename
    - remove debian/patches/ubuntu_no_app_updates.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Refresh patches:
    - update debian/patches/firefox-kde.patch
    - update debian/patches/mozilla-kde.patch
    - update debian/patches...

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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