On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:02:05AM -0500, Roderick Schertler wrote: >I see this problem when upgrading from 5.8.0-15 to 5.8.0-17. Here's a >log (warts and all, lest I screw it up by editing it).
># apt-get install perl >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >The following extra packages will be installed: > perl-base >The following packages will be REMOVED: > perl-doc >2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 21 not upgraded. >Need to get 3875kB/4587kB of archives. After unpacking 7516kB will be freed. >Do you want to continue? [Y/n] >Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main perl 5.8.0-17 [3875kB] >Fetched 3875kB in 49s (77.9kB/s) >Reading changelogs... Done >[...] >apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n]? >(Reading database ... 59741 files and directories currently installed.) >Removing perl-doc ... >Removing `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc' >dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/bin/perldoc' with > different file `/usr/bin/perldoc.stub', not allowed The is very puzzling. The un-diversion occurs in the postrm of perl-doc, at which point /usr/bin/perldoc should not exist. Was there something unusual about /usr/bin/perldoc? Was it a symlink to /usr/local/bin/perldoc or something? I've not been able to duplicate this fault. At this point I'm treating it as a transient failure, and in the absence of any reports to the contrary will close this bug shortly. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
