Your message dated Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:13:31 +0200 (CEST)
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and subject line Re: Bug#544133: diffutils: file conflicts with diff 2.8.7-0.2
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Package: diffutils
Version: 2.8.1-12
Hi Santiago,
aptitude fails to "upgrade" from diff in experimental to diffutils in unstable:
| Unpacking diffutils (from .../diffutils_2.8.1-15_i386.deb) ...
| dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_2.8.1-15_i386.deb (--unpack):
| trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo', which is also in
package diff
| dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
| Errors were encountered while processing:
| /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_2.8.1-15_i386.deb
I was not able to finish the upgrade without removing the (essential)
diff package. Is there a simpler way? Maybe diffutils should Replaces:
diff (= 2.8.7-0.2).
Regards,
Jonathan
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On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Santiago,
>
> Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> > Your problem comes from the fact that the package in experimental is
> > still called "diff", and it will go away as soon as I make an upload
> > which makes "diff" to be a dummy package also in experimental.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't (and didn't, when I reported this bug) have
> experimental in sources.list any more. But if that is considered
> too rare a case to worry about, I don't mind.
Well, I have just uploaded 2.8.7 for experimental in such a way that
users who keep experimental in their sources.list will see their diff
packages smoothly renamed to diffutils.
Installing a few packages from experimental and then removing
experimental from sources.list is not really supported.
What you did:
dpkg --force-remove-essential --purge diff
apt-get install diffutils
is exactly what I would have done in your case: If you remove experimental
from sources.list, the sane thing to do is to downgrade everything
back to their unstable versions, just in case.
Thanks.
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