On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 10:41 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> 
> > Package: diffutils
> > Version: 2.8.1-17
> > Severity: grave
> > 
> > note I have experimental/unstable/stable in sources.list : on a 
> > dist-upgrade from today I get:
> > 
> > (Reading database ... 510515 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking diffutils (from .../diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-17_i386.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-17_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo',
> >  which is also in package diff 0:2.8.7-0.2
> >  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> >  Errors were encountered while processing:
> >   /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-17_i386.deb
> 
> Please try
> 
> apt-get install diff=1:2.8.7-0.1 diffutils=1:2.8.7-0.1
> 
> if you want to solve this immediately.
> 
> I'll see if making diff in experimental to have a versioned depends on
> experimental diffutils solves this.

Yes you are right that works. Only the upgrade path from this older
version of diff is broken.

Thanks,
Soeren
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