severity 355250 serious tags 355250 pending thanks "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tetex-doc-nonfree contains files which are also in tetex-doc 3.0-15. > > Unpacking tetex-doc-nonfree (from .../tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/texmf/context/base/ms-cb-en.pdf.gz', > which is also in package tetex-doc > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb Thanks for reporting, this is a serious policy violation. > I know that tetex-doc-nonfree replaces parts of tetex-doc, however, > tetex-doc-nonfree just Replaces: tetex-doc (<= 3.0-14) So I assume the > deal was to remove the questionable files from tetex-doc 3.0-15. Correct. > I also know the bug would be better suited against tetex-doc 3.0-15, > however, unfortunately, tetex-doc 3.0-15 is upgradable from 3.0-14 with > tetex-doc-nonfree 1.0-1 present. I don't know why this is (perhaps some > bug in dpkg?), but the other way around (installing tetex-doc-nonfree > 1.0-1 while tetex-doc 3.0-15 is present) fails as shown above, so I file > the bug against tetex-doc-nonfree. I'll investigate this, but the faster way to fix is to just bump the version in tetex-doc-nonfree's Replaces line. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
