On 5 April 2017 at 11:59, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2017-04-04 18:41:10 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2017-04-04 16:29 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
>> > Unpacking libbsd-dev:amd64 (0.8.3-1) ...
>> > dpkg: error processing archive 
>> > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-tduipc/101-libbsd-dev_0.8.3-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>> >  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/explicit_bzero.3.gz', which is 
>> > also in package manpages-dev 4.10-1
>>
>> It's libbsd-dev which came first to ship that manpage, manpages-dev only
>> added it in the 4.10-1 upload.
>
> I assume that's because it's a new function in glibc 2.25:

Yes. That's correct (i.e., it was added in glibc 2.25, which is why I
added the man page in upstream man-pages).

> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/bzero.3.html
>
>   explicit_bzero() first appeared in glibc 2.25.
>
> So, IMHO, manpages-dev does the right thing by providing this
> man page.

I think so.

Cheers,

Michael


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