Package: hwtools
Version: 0.8-3
Followup-For: Bug #291138

...buth 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' fails, also with "-f":
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get -f -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  asterisk cpudyn cpufreqd loop-aes-utils powernowd
The following packages will be upgraded:
    hwtools
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 122kB of archives.
After unpacking 41.0kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://192.168.2.222 unstable/main hwtools 0.8-4 [122kB]
Fetched 122kB in 0s (2092kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
--------------------- Sourcerer Apt Watcher ---------------------
Configure: hwtools
grep: *.conf: No such file or directory
-----------------------------------------------------------------
(Reading database ... 425217 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hwtools 0.8-3 (using .../hwtools_0.8-4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement hwtools ...
dpkg: error processing
 /var/cache/apt/archives/hwtools_0.8-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/buffer.1.gz', which is also in package 
buffer
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/hwtools_0.8-4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

...'apt-get -f install' ignores the error and returns "ok".
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ #
      
...(192.168.2.222 is my lan test mirror.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages hwtools depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.42       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- debconf information:
  hwtools/no-scsi:



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