Comment 5 for bug 627879

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

The issue seems to be that a repository shipped with Ubuntu Ultimate Edition contains a package called ultimate-edition-customizations, which replaces every file in ubufox.

mvo suggests this confuses apt:

<mvo> chrisccoulson: three cheers to dpkg ;) "(Noting disappearance of ubufox, which has been completely replaced.)
<mvo> "
<mvo> chrisccoulson: that confuses apt slightly - actually apt should nowdays be able to cope
<chrisccoulson> mvo - nice! should i assign this bug to apt then, or is there something i can do in ubufox?
<mvo> chrisccoulson: but apparently it is not. as a workaround, you should keep a single file in the ubufox package so that the package still exists.

Anyway, I'll reassign this to apt. There's nothing really for us to do in the Ubuntu ubufox package, but the ultimate-edition guys could work around it if they want to