error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-pip-whl_8.0.2-7_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/python-wheels/html5lib-0.999-py2.py3-none-any.whl', which is also in package python-html5lib-whl 0.999-3build1

[Iain Lane]

During a full-upgrade right now with x-proposed (in a container!),

Unpacking python-pip-whl (8.0.2-7) over (1.5.6-7ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-pip-whl_8.0.2-7_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/python-wheels/html5lib-0.999-py2.py3-none-any.whl', which is also in package python-html5lib-whl 0.999-3build1

I don't know anything about this particular piece of packaging but it seems like you want << versions-that-dropped-these-files?

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

On Feb 17, 2016, at 09:51 AM, Iain Lane wrote:

>I don't know anything about this particular piece of packaging but it
>seems like you want << versions-that-dropped-these-files?

The Breaks/Replaces exist, and python-html5lib-whl is being dropped in
0.999-4, but the latter is currently stuck in -proposed for unrelated
reasons. I'm trying to clear that out and then all should be good.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 03:42:48PM -0000, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2016, at 09:51 AM, Iain Lane wrote:
>
> >I don't know anything about this particular piece of packaging but it
> >seems like you want << versions-that-dropped-these-files?
>
> The Breaks/Replaces exist, and python-html5lib-whl is being dropped in
> 0.999-4, but the latter is currently stuck in -proposed for unrelated
> reasons. I'm trying to clear that out and then all should be good.

Yeah, so you have "python-html5lib-whl (<= 0.999-3)" and not << 0.999-4
- that's what I was getting at. The version is wrong given that our
python-html5lib-whl containing the conflicting files in question is
0.999-3build1 which is greater than 0.999-3, so the B/R don't apply
and that's why the upgrade failed for me.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

I got it for this one too on a different machine

  dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/python-wheels/chardet-2.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl', which is also in package python-chardet-whl 2.3.0-1build1

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Thanks Laney, yep you're right. I was trying to be too clever (and also because I don't maintain all the packages). << is a better way to go.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

This is now broken in xenial proper.

[Thiago Martins (martinx)]

Yep, broken on Xenial...

[Shane Synan (digitalcircuit)]

For systems already in a broken state, will any workaround be needed once a fixed package is uploaded, or will it be sufficient to 'apt-get update && apt-get install -f'?

[Shane Synan (digitalcircuit)]

In the meantime, I managed to work around the issue with multiple trials of apt-get that resulted in something like the following:

sudo apt-get remove -f python-pip-whl python3-pip python-chardet-whl python-html5lib-whl python-virtualenv python3-virtualenv virtualenv
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-virtualenv virtualenv # (Optionally, python-virtualenv if you need that too)

At your own risk; I cannot guarantee this workaround will succeed for you.

[Jader Gabriel (salvavidasti)]

The solution of user digitalcircuit works for me!I

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

FWIW, still waiting for LP to pick up python-pip 8.0.3-1 (and python-virtualenv 14.0.5+ds-2) which should fix this problem, assuming they migrate from proposed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-pip - 8.0.3-1

---------------
python-pip (8.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.

 -- Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:15:32 -0500