I analyzed the two packages and I think I found the reason why they break each other: both contain /usr/bin/chardet and /usr/bin/chardetect (as well as the associated man pages).
So, a possible solution could be remove those two binaries, and their man pages from both python-chardet and python3-chardet, and create a new package "chardet" on which both would depend. Of course, this is just a suggestion, and I'm pretty sure the package maintainer is well aware of the situation and has his own reasons not to split the packages. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python3-chardet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1901295 Title: python3-chardet breaks install of python-chardet Status in python3-chardet package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm trying to install python-chardet (for python-2.7), but it fails because latest python3-chardet breaks python-chardet. I fail to understand why the python3 version of chardet would break the python2.7 version of the same module. PS: I know that python2.7 is not supported anymore, but I have an application that depends on it, and I need to install it, and that's now impossible because of this bug. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3-chardet/+bug/1901295/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
