Package: bash-completion Version: 20080705 Severity: normal I have two systems running sid which couldn't install the latest bash-completion, with:
> sudo apt-get install bash Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done bash is already the newest version. The following extra packages will be installed: bash-completion The following NEW packages will be installed: bash-completion 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. 81 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/89.2kB of archives. After this operation, 459kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done (Reading database ... 134061 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking bash-completion (from .../bash-completion_20080705_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_20080705_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/bash_completion', which is also in package bash dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/bash-completion_20080705_all.deb [ Rootkit Hunter version 1.3.2 ] File updated: searched for 154 files, found 136 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) One of them seemed to fix itself when I did a purge of bash_completion, and then reinstalled the same latest version in sid. The other hasn't. I just tracked it down to it still being listed as a conffile in /var/lib/dpkg/status for the bash package. Should there be a method in one of the packages to clear the conffile status from the bash package and let bash-completion take it over? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages bash-completion depends on: ii bash 3.2-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell bash-completion recommends no packages. bash-completion suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
