Comment 6 for bug 8429

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0409201703050.18903@bms>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:12:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: Bruce Sass <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: what's wrong and how to fix it

kdelibs-data is providing mimelnk .desktop files for sun formats,
specifically:

(Reading database ... 289586 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace openoffice.org-mimelnk 1.1.2-3 (using .../openoffice.org-mimelnk_1.1.2-4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement openoffice.org-mimelnk ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.calc.desktop', which
is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.chart.desktop', which
is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.draw.desktop', which
is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.impress.desktop',
which is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.math.desktop', which
is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.writer.desktop',
which is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.writer-global.desktop',
which is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.template.desktop',
which is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.draw.template.desktop',
which is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.impress.template.desktop',
which is also in package kdelibs-data
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
  trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.template.desktop',
which is also in package kdelibs-data
Setting up openoffice.org-mimelnk (1.1.2-4) ...

The solution is to break the .desktop files out of
openoffice.org-mimelnk and put them into their own package, which
kdelibs-data should depend (suggest or recommend, as is deemed
appropriate) upon.

- Bruce