Package: dvidvi Version: 1.0-8etch1 Severity: important Hello,
On upgrading texlive in Sid, which no longer provides a dvidvi binary and now Recommends the dvidvi package instead, I got the following: Selecting previously deselected package dvidvi. Unpacking dvidvi (from .../dvidvi_1.0-8etch1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dvidvi_1.0-8etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dvidvi', which is also in package texlive-extra-utils This happens because at the time dvidvi was unpacked, the older version of texlive-extra-utils was still installed. This is the companion bug to #411537. The issue could be worked around if dvidvi had a line like Replaces: texlive-extra-utils (<< 2005.dfsg.2-12) in its control file. If this fix could be targeted for etch-proposed-updates (e.g. version number 1.0-8etch2) and if that version of dvidvi, and version 2005.dfsg.2-12 of texlive-bin, make it into Etch, then it will be possible to upgrade texlive-extra-utils from earlier versions of Sid or Etch with no troubles. (Severity "important" rather than RC, since this issue won't affect people upgrading to Etch or Sid from Sarge where there are no texlive packages. X-Debbug-CC'ed to release and tex-maint teams.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dvidvi depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dvidvi recommends no packages. -- no debconf information best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]