Package: devscripts Version: 2.8.14 Severity: important I attempted to upgrade to the latest version of devscripts this evening and got the following error from apt-get:
jupiter:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: gksu jade libgmp3-dev libstlport4.6-dev sp The following packages will be upgraded: devscripts 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. 93 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/216kB of archives. After unpacking 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 128038 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace devscripts 2.8.14 (using .../devscripts_2.9_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement devscripts ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/devscripts_2.9_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/annotate', which is also in package libgd-tools dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/devscripts_2.9_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) So you now have a conflict with the libgd-tools package. Thankfully I don't actually need libgd-tools so I was able to just remove it and go on my way. Stephen Quinney -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.14.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.13.10 Package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii perl 5.8.7-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii fakeroot 1.4.2 Gives a fake root environment -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
