On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 00:39 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Source: linux-tools
Version: 3.7.1-1~experimental.1
Severity: important
Justification: file conflict waiting to happen
Today I tried to update linux-tools.
| # dpkg -i
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/linux-tools-3.8_3.8-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb
| (Reading database ... 137118 files and directories currently installed.)
| Unpacking linux-tools-3.8 (from
.../linux-tools-3.8_3.8-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb) ...
| dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/linux-tools-3.8_3.8-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb
(--install):
| trying to overwrite '/etc/bash_completion.d/perf', which is also in
package linux-tools-3.7 3.7.1-1~experimental.1
| dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
| Errors were encountered while processing:
| /var/cache/pbuilder/result/linux-tools-3.8_3.8-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb
Filing so it's not forgotten.
I think we need to put a completion script for 'perf' in linux-base, but
have it pull in the version-specific completion script somehow. (I've
never worked on these previously.)
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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