libtesseract4 illegally overwrites file in libtesseract3v5

[Chad Miller]

xenial

Preparing to unpack .../libtesseract4_3.04.01-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libtesseract4 (3.04.01-2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libtesseract4_3.04.01-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtesseract.so.3.0.4', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libtesseract4_3.04.01-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

$ apt-cache show libtesseract4 |egrep 'Replaces|Breaks'
Replaces: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.01~)
Breaks: ocropus (<< 0.4.0~), tesseract-ocr (<< 3.01~)

$ apt-cache policy libtesseract4 libtesseract3v5
libtesseract4:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.04.01-2
  Version table:
     3.04.01-2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu devel/universe amd64 Packages
libtesseract3v5:
  Installed: 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.04.00-5ubuntu1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache depends libsikuli-script-jni
libsikuli-script-jni
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: libopencv-core2.4v5
  Depends: libopencv-highgui2.4v5
  Depends: libopencv-imgproc2.4v5
  Depends: libopencv-objdetect2.4v5
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Depends: libtesseract4

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libtesseract4 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-4.19-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-4-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Feb 22 10:27:43 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-07 (655 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: tesseract
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Chad Miller (cmiller)]

dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtesseract.so.3.0.4', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/tessconfigs/batch', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/tessconfigs/nobatch', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/tessconfigs/segdemo', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/tessconfigs/matdemo', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/tessconfigs/msdemo', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/tessconfigs/batch.nochop', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/pdf.ttf', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/box.train.stderr', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/logfile', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/bigram', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/makebox', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/box.train', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/ambigs.train', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/quiet', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/digits', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/strokewidth', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/kannada', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/inter', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/hocr', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/unlv', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/api_config', which is also in package libtesserac...

[Tigerboy (tigersands)]

Same here in 16.04 current as of 20 Feb, 2016

libtesseract4_3.04.01-2_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtesseract.so.3.0.4', which is also in package libtesseract3v5 3.04.00-5ubuntu1
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 tesseract-ocr : Depends: libtesseract4 (>= 3.03~) but it is not installed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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