package libtidy-0.99-0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtidy.so', which is also in package tidy 5.0.0

Bug #1531683 reported by Alice Rose
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
tidy (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I manually updated to HTML5 tidy yesterday the sudo apt-get update just gave an installation error that's all

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libtidy-0.99-0 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-42.48~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt10
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-42-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
AptOrdering:
 libtidy-0.99-0: Install
 tidy: Install
 libtidy-0.99-0: Configure
 tidy: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 6 20:02:12 2016
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Preparing to unpack .../libtidy-0.99-0_20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb ...
 Unpacking libtidy-0.99-0 (20091223cvs-1.2ubuntu1.1) ...
DuplicateSignature: package:libtidy-0.99-0:(not installed):trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtidy.so', which is also in package tidy 5.0.0
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtidy.so', which is also in package tidy 5.0.0
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-30 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.5
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.10
SourcePackage: tidy
Title: package libtidy-0.99-0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtidy.so', which is also in package tidy 5.0.0
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alice Rose (alice-millage) wrote :
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in tidy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jim Berry (taijim) wrote :

Using Ubuntu 16.04

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