Followup-For: Bug #940491 Control: found -1 1.11.0-2 Hi,
this seems to be more complicated and requires more B+R, since /usr/share/meep/casimir.scm was shipped by multiple packages: Unpacking libmeep16 (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libmeep16_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/meep/casimir.scm', which is also in package libmeep-lam4-12 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking libmeep16 (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libmeep16_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/meep/casimir.scm', which is also in package libmeep-mpi-default12 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking libmeep16 (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libmeep16_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/meep/casimir.scm', which is also in package libmeep-mpich2-12 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking libmeep16 (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libmeep16_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/meep/casimir.scm', which is also in package libmeep-openmpi12 1.7.0-3+b1 and other files in other packages, too: Unpacking meep (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/meep_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/meep', which is also in package meep-lam4 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking meep (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/meep_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/meep', which is also in package meep-mpi-default 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking meep (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/meep_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/meep', which is also in package meep-mpich2 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking meep (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/meep_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/meep', which is also in package meep-openmpi 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking python-meep (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-meep_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meep/__init__.py', which is also in package python-meep-lam4 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking python-meep (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-meep_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meep/__init__.py', which is also in package python-meep-mpi-default 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking python-meep (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-meep_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meep/__init__.py', which is also in package python-meep-mpich2 1.7.0-3+b1 Unpacking python-meep (1.11.0-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-meep_1.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/meep/__init__.py', which is also in package python-meep-openmpi 1.7.0-3+b1 Andreas