Package: libreoffice-common Version: 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Since the fork between LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org (now Apache OpenOffice), both suites install /usr/bin/soffice directly. This completely prevents users to install both on the same computer, despite Debian does provide a fully mature way to support that: the alternatives. This is particularly annnoying since /usr/bin/soffice is already a link, so technically there is no point in forcing its destination at installation. With the current setting, attemptin to install the suite A when suite B has been installed beforehand fails (whatever are A and B, the problem is the same in both installation orders). The failure is that dpkg refuses to overwrite /usr/bin/soffce since it is own by the first package installed. Installation can be force using dpkg only using the --force-overwrite flag. This is really inconvenient and seems to contradict Debian installation rules. Even if people manage to install both packages using dpkg and --force-overwrite, upgrading also don't work and the same trick has to be reused to overwrite the link. LibreOffice (and Apache OpenOffice too) should use the alternative mechanism to set up the /usr/bin/soffice link. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libreoffice-common depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.9 ii libreoffice-style-galaxy [libreoffice-style-default] 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 ii libreoffice-style-tango [libreoffice-style] 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 ii ure 3.5.4+dfsg-4 Versions of packages libreoffice-common recommends: ii libexttextcat-data 3.2.0-2 ii xfonts-mathml 6 Versions of packages libreoffice-common suggests: pn libreoffice-style-crystal <none> pn libreoffice-style-hicontrast <none> pn libreoffice-style-oxygen <none> ii libreoffice-style-tango 1:3.5.4+dfsg-4 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org