Bug#557054: tulip-doc and libmesh-doc: error when trying to install together
clone 557054 -1 reassign 557054 tulip reassign -1 libmesh thanks On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 21:14 +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:29:36PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hi, It seems that it would not be hard to resolve this by using /etc/alternatives to select between the four files in these two packages. Here's what I propose (for postinst): update-alternatives --install /usr/share/man/man3/std.3.gz std.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/std_libmesh.3.gz 10 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Point.3.gz Point.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Point_libmesh.3.gz \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Sphere.3.gz Sphere.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Sphere_libmesh.3.gz \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Triangle.3.gz Triangle.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Triangle_libmesh.3.gz and you can change _libmesh to _tulip, and we both undo them in prerm. What do you think? When I saw all these manpages generated upstream, my 1st thought was that they would be better suited asi .3tulip section. That way at the same time we avoid namespace clutter, and we retain the man Point that may get suggested in other places (docs, forums, etc). That's even something for which we could push patches to our respective upstreams. That's an excellent idea. I'll change libmesh in the same way, and will push the change upstream. I'm cloning the bug, you can close this number when you change tulip and I'll close the new one when I change libmesh. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: clone 557054 -1 Bug#557054: tulip-doc and libmesh-doc: error when trying to install together Bug 557054 cloned as bug 557691. reassign 557054 tulip Bug #557054 [libmesh-doc,tulip-doc] tulip-doc and libmesh-doc: error when trying to install together Bug reassigned from package 'libmesh-doc,tulip-doc' to 'tulip'. reassign -1 libmesh Bug #557691 [libmesh-doc,tulip-doc] tulip-doc and libmesh-doc: error when trying to install together Bug reassigned from package 'libmesh-doc,tulip-doc' to 'libmesh'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#557054: tulip-doc and libmesh-doc: error when trying to install together
Hi, It seems that it would not be hard to resolve this by using /etc/alternatives to select between the four files in these two packages. Here's what I propose (for postinst): update-alternatives --install /usr/share/man/man3/std.3.gz std.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/std_libmesh.3.gz 10 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Point.3.gz Point.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Point_libmesh.3.gz \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Sphere.3.gz Sphere.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Sphere_libmesh.3.gz \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Triangle.3.gz Triangle.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Triangle_libmesh.3.gz and you can change _libmesh to _tulip, and we both undo them in prerm. What do you think? -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#557054: tulip-doc and libmesh-doc: error when trying to install together
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:29:36PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Hi, It seems that it would not be hard to resolve this by using /etc/alternatives to select between the four files in these two packages. Here's what I propose (for postinst): update-alternatives --install /usr/share/man/man3/std.3.gz std.3.gz /usr/share/man/man3/std_libmesh.3.gz 10 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Point.3.gz Point.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Point_libmesh.3.gz \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Sphere.3.gz Sphere.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Sphere_libmesh.3.gz \ --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Triangle.3.gz Triangle.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Triangle_libmesh.3.gz and you can change _libmesh to _tulip, and we both undo them in prerm. What do you think? When I saw all these manpages generated upstream, my 1st thought was that they would be better suited asi .3tulip section. That way at the same time we avoid namespace clutter, and we retain the man Point that may get suggested in other places (docs, forums, etc). That's even something for which we could push patches to our respective upstreams. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#557054: tulip-doc and libmesh-doc: error when trying to install together
Package: libmesh-doc,tulip-doc Version: libmesh-doc/0.6.4.dfsg-1 Version: tulip-doc/3.1.2-2 Severity: serious User: trei...@debian.org Usertags: edos-file-overwrite Date: 2009-11-19 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: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! tulip-doc libmesh-doc Authentication warning overridden. Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Selecting previously deselected package tulip-doc. (Reading database ... 10432 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tulip-doc (from .../tulip-doc_3.1.2-2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libmesh-doc. Unpacking libmesh-doc (from .../libmesh-doc_0.6.4.dfsg-1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmesh-doc_0.6.4.dfsg-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/Point.3.gz', which is also in package tulip-doc 0:3.1.2-2 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libmesh-doc_0.6.4.dfsg-1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) cow-shell unlink .ilist: No such file or directory This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violate section 7.6.1 of the policy. Possible solutions are to have the two packages conflict, to rename the common file in one of the two packages, or to remove the file from one package and have this package depend on the other package. File diversions or a Replace relation are another possibility. 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/share/man/man3/Point.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Sphere.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Triangle.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/std.3.gz This bug is assigned to 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. -Ralf. PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors of this kind see http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
