[Edgy] uninstallable: 'rep' manpage is also in librep9.deb

[Matthias Urlichs]

Unpacking replacement librep9 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/librep9_0.17-12ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/rep.1.gz', which is also in package rep
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/librep9_0.17-12ubuntu1_i386.deb

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Confirmed in Edgy with libr 0.17-11ubuntu2 and librep 0.17-11ubuntu2.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

how odd. I'm getting:

root@sarah:/# apt-get install rep
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libgmp3c2 librep9
Suggested packages:
  librep-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgmp3c2 librep9 rep
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 371kB/794kB of archives.
After unpacking 2232kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  libgmp3c2 librep9 rep
Authentication warning overridden.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe librep9 0.17-13ubuntu1 [340kB]
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe rep 0.17-11ubuntu2 [31.5kB]
Fetched 371kB in 3s (100kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libgmp3c2.
(Reading database ... 13770 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libgmp3c2 (from .../libgmp3c2_2%3a4.2.1+dfsg-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package librep9.
Unpacking librep9 (from .../librep9_0.17-13ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package rep.
Unpacking rep (from .../rep_0.17-11ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rep_0.17-11ubuntu2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rep', which is also in package librep9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/rep_0.17-11ubuntu2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

was this with an upgrade of the package, or newly installed?

[Matthias Urlichs (smurf)]

Hi,

Sarah Hobbs:
> how odd. I'm getting:
>
> root@sarah:/# apt-get install rep
> [...]
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rep_0.17-11ubuntu2_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rep', which is also in package librep9
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/rep_0.17-11ubuntu2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
Just a different ordering of "whic package got installed first", I think.

> was this with an upgrade of the package, or newly installed?
>
dapper->edgy update, if I remember correctly.

But that's actually rather irrelevant. Shared library .debs are not
supposed to contain programs, so there is at least one bug of
- current librep and/or librep9 packages still contain /usr/bin/rep
- rep needs a Conflicts:+Replaces: on older librep* packages, so that
  replacing their binary works regardless of which installation happens
  first

--
Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | <email address hidden>

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

well, exactly.

What confuses me is to why my version in a clean edgy pbuilder didnt work either, although it failed for a different reason...i cant seem to see the reason.

[Matthias Urlichs (smurf)]

Hi,

Sarah Hobbs:
> What confuses me is to why my version in a clean edgy pbuilder didnt
> work either, although it failed for a different reason...i cant seem to
> see the reason.
>
Just a different installation order, I'd suspect.

What's the problem, though? Remove /usr/bin/rep from librep, add
appropriate Replaces: and Conflichts: headers to rep, rebuild, be happy.
;-)

I can look over your current version, if you'd like; just send me the diffs.

--
Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | <email address hidden>

[Michael Milligan (milli)]

A "me too"... trying out Edgy Beta on an AMD64 box. I recall this happened in the past in Debian, so it's a regression. I'm guessing it snuck back into upstream.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

Fixed in Feisty.

[era (era)]

Please fix this in Edgy too, as it prevents a dist-upgrade from Dapper to Edgy if you have rep installed.

[era (era)]

Just for emphasis and clarification, librep9 in Edgy should IMHO deserve an update with Conflicts: rep (<= [whatever is in Dapper]) in order to solve the dist-upgrade problem.

I'm not sure how this should be addressed, as this issue is not a security problem, but I hope there is a way to get stuff into "Edgy 1.01" or some such.

[Leo Iannacone (l3on)]

Edgy is not longer supported.