Comment 8 for bug 312364

Hi Michael,

I just remembered that I got a python-gobject warning on one of my previously reported synaptic bugs (8.10 alfas). I hope to hear back from anyone soon. Otherwise I will try to contact Sebastian Heinlein, as I think he may actually be responsible for this kind of stuff. (Really, there were so many people 'contacted' with my last bug report that I am only guessing. Happy new year anyway to the lot of you. LOL)

The problem below generated a crash report and apport-gtk did its thing. I got the pop-up "not a genuine ubuntu package". I guess this is because it is an early jaunty 'dbgsym'? Or was this really replaced (e.g. python-gobject by python2.5)?

root@thomas-laptop:/home/thomas# apt-get install python-gobject
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-gobject is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@thomas-laptop:/home/thomas# apt-get install python-gobject-dbgsym
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  python-gobject-dbgsym
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 243kB of archives.
After this operation, 745kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://ddebs.ubuntu.com jaunty/main python-gobject-dbgsym 2.15.4-1 [243kB]
Fetched 243kB in 22s (10.8kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package python-gobject-dbgsym.
(Reading database ... 348134 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-gobject-dbgsym (from .../python-gobject-dbgsym_2.15.4-1_i386.ddeb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-gobject-dbgsym_2.15.4-1_i386.ddeb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/glib/_glib.so', which is also in package python-gobject-dbg
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-gobject-dbgsym_2.15.4-1_i386.ddeb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@thomas-laptop:/home/thomas# apt-get remove python-gobject-dbg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  python-gnome2-desktop-dbg python-gnome2-extras-dbg python-gobject-dbg
  python-gst0.10-dbg python-gtk2-dbg
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 19.6MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
root@thomas-laptop:/home/thomas#