Can't update hexchat on wily

Bug #1506399 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 on 2015-10-15
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
hexchat (Ubuntu)
Undecided
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Bug Description

" trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/hexchat.1.gz', which is also in package hexchat-common 2.10.2-1ubuntu1"

alan@deep-thought:~$ apt-cache policy hexchat hexchat-common
hexchat:
  Installed: 2.10.2-1build1
  Candidate: 2.10.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2.10.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages
 *** 2.10.2-1build1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
hexchat-common:
  Installed: 2.10.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.10.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.10.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

alan@deep-thought:~$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 hexchat : Depends: hexchat-common (= 2.10.2-1build1) but 2.10.2-1ubuntu1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

alan@deep-thought:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-image-4.2.0-12-generic linux-image-extra-4.2.0-12-generic linux-tools-4.2.0-12 linux-tools-4.2.0-12-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  hexchat
Suggested packages:
  unifont
The following packages will be upgraded:
  hexchat
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/322 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.2 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 1253608 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../hexchat_2.10.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking hexchat (2.10.2-1ubuntu1) over (2.10.2-1build1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/hexchat_2.10.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/hexchat.1.gz', which is also in package hexchat-common 2.10.2-1ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.4-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/hexchat_2.10.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in hexchat (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri) wrote :

this has been fixed in 2.10.2-1ubuntu2, though maybe seb128 didn't check the bugs here.

Wow 3 duplicated bugs in so few hours, checking whether the bug you're reporting is already filed would be welcome.

Changed in hexchat (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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