Bug#563437: Uninstallable: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/php/doc', which is also in package php-pear

reassign 563437 php-pear thanks I've just looked into this, and the reason that it's failing is that /usr/share/php/doc is a symlink to /usr/share/doc/php-pear/PEAR /usr/share/doc/php-pear is a symlink to /usr/share/doc/php5-common, which doesn't include a PEAR directory. If the symlinks were co

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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 563437 php-pear Bug #563437 [php5-symfony1.0] Uninstallable: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/php/doc', which is also in package php-pear Bug reassigned from package 'php5-symfony1.0' to 'php-pear'. Bug No longer marked as found in versio

Bug#563437: Uninstallable: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/php/doc', which is also in package php-pear

Package: php5-symfony1.0 Version: 1.0.21-1.1 Severity: grave Justification: makes package uninstallable Hi, When I try to install the package, it tries to overwrite a symlink that is shipped by 'php-pear', namely /usr/share/php/doc: The following NEW packages will be installed: php5-symfony1.0