Hi, as you can read in the following bug report we need to decide what package should provide the binary
/usr/bin/fastasort and in what package this should be renamed (including suggestions for a new name). The good thing is that both package are under Debian Med maintenance and we are free to decide. Kind regards Andreas. ----- Forwarded message from Ralf Treinen <trei...@free.fr> ----- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:40:51 +0100 From: Ralf Treinen <trei...@free.fr> To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#737913: exonerate and dnaclust: error when trying to install together X-Debian-PR-Message: report 737913 X-Debian-PR-Package: dnaclust,exonerate X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Package: dnaclust,exonerate Version: dnaclust/3-1 Version: exonerate/2.2.0-6 Severity: serious User: trei...@debian.org Usertags: edos-file-overwrite Date: 2014-02-06 Architecture: amd64 Distribution: sid Hi, automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has detected the following problem: Selecting previously unselected package libboost-program-options1.54.0:amd64. (Reading database ... 10921 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libboost-program-options1.54.0_1.54.0-4+b1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libboost-program-options1.54.0:amd64 (1.54.0-4+b1) ... Selecting previously unselected package libffi6:amd64. Preparing to unpack .../libffi6_3.0.13-12_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libffi6:amd64 (3.0.13-12) ... Selecting previously unselected package libglib2.0-0:amd64. Preparing to unpack .../libglib2.0-0_2.36.4-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.36.4-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package dnaclust. Preparing to unpack .../dnaclust_3-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking dnaclust (3-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package exonerate. Preparing to unpack .../exonerate_2.2.0-6_amd64.deb ... Unpacking exonerate (2.2.0-6) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/exonerate_2.2.0-6_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/fastasort', which is also in package dnaclust 3-1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.6-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/exonerate_2.2.0-6_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and diversions should only be used when packages provide different implementations for the same functionality. Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be slightly out of sync): /usr/bin/fastasort This bug has been filed against both packages. If you, the maintainers of the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may then also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug. -Ralf. PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors of this kind see http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/. _______________________________________________ Debian-med-packaging mailing list debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-packaging ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140207125707.gd3...@an3as.eu