Scratch text editor conflicts with another package named "Scratch"

Bug #1022107 reported by Pranav
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Bug Description

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has an educational package which is oriented towards teaching kids how programming works. The package is called "Scratch"
Project Website: http://scratch.mit.edu/

Problem is the conflicting name of the software. When I try to install the package in the daily build of LUNA, I get following:

pranav@pranav-xps:~$ sudo dpkg -i /home/pranav/Downloads/scratch_1.4.0.1-0ub5_i386.deb
[sudo] password for pranav:
(Reading database ... 233281 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking scratch:i386 (from .../scratch_1.4.0.1-0ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/pranav/Downloads/scratch_1.4.0.1-0ubuntu5_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/scratch.desktop', which is also in package scratch-text-editor 1.1+r775-0+pkg23~precise1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /home/pranav/Downloads/scratch_1.4.0.1-0ubuntu5_i386.deb

Revision history for this message
Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote :

sudo apt-get -y remove scratch && sudo apt-get -y install scratch-text-editor

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