[can-not-install] file overwrite failure

[Michael Vogt]

Binary package hint: tau

Found while doing a install test:

Selecting previously deselected package tau.
Unpacking tau (from .../tau_2.15.6b1-3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tau_2.15.6b1-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/pprof', which is also in package libgoogle-perftools0
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

[Daniel Schwitzgebel (schwitzd)]

the bugfix

[Daniel Schwitzgebel (schwitzd)]

the bugfix

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

I think conflicting with tau is not a good choice. Looking at the related Debian bug, this bug should be addressed renaming pprof in google-pprof (or similar). This change will probably require man pages modifications too.

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

This issue appears to have been fixed in the google-perftools 0.98-1 package for Intrepid, see:

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/intrepid/google-perftools

and especially:

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/google-perftools/google-perftools_0.98-1.diff.gz

which renamed pprof to google-pprof

Jonathan

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Fixed in Intrepid with 0.98-1.