package overwrite errors

[Jonathan Riddell]

Binary package hint: gobject-introspection

On installing libgirepository1.0-1

dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libgirepository-everything-1.0.so.1.0.0', which is also in package libgirepository1.0-0 0.6.14-1ubuntu2
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libgirepository-gimarshallingtests-1.0.so.1.0.0', which is also in package libgirepository1.0-0 0.6.14-1ubuntu2
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libgirepository-everything-1.0.so.1', which is also in package libgirepository1.0-0 0.6.14-1ubuntu2
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libgirepository-gimarshallingtests-1.0.so.1', which is also in package libgirepository1.0-0 0.6.14-1ubuntu2

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks, confirmed in maverick. Setting to 'triaged/high'

Workaround:
dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libgirepository1.0-1_0.9.3-0ubuntu2_i386.deb

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gobject-introspection - 0.9.3-0ubuntu3

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gobject-introspection (0.9.3-0ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * Resynchronize on Debian and fix upgrade issues (lp: #616295)

gobject-introspection (0.6.15~git20100713-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Laurent Bigonville ]
  * Install Everything-1.0 and GIMarshallingTests-1.0 typelib in new
    gir1.0-everything-1.0 package (Closes: #550478)
  * Split documentation in its own -doc package (Closes: #584876)
  * debian/rules: Remove shlibs versioning logic now we're using .symbols file

  [ Gustavo Noronha Silva ]
  * Development snapshot
  * debian/libgirepository1.0-0.symbols:
  - update with new and remove(!) symbols
  * debian/patches/01_fix_doc_building.diff:
  - dodge documentation build problem by removing files that do not
    exist from the file lists
  * debian/rules:
  - no longer need simple-patchsys with 3.0 (quilt) source format
  * debian/control:
  - build-depend on glib >= 2.25.11 to make sure we can bind the new
    interfaces such as GSettings
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:19:03 +0200