Package: libreadline5-dev,libreadline6-dev
Version: libreadline5-dev/5.2-6
Version: libreadline6-dev/6.0-3
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: edos-file-overwrite

Date: 2009-08-28
Architecture: amd64
Distribution: sid

Hi,

automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
detected the following problem:


WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  libc-dev-bin linux-libc-dev libc6-dev libncurses5-dev libreadline5-dev
  libreadline6-dev
Authentication warning overridden.
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Selecting previously deselected package libc-dev-bin.
(Reading database ... 8147 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libc-dev-bin (from .../libc-dev-bin_2.9-25_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-libc-dev.
Unpacking linux-libc-dev (from .../linux-libc-dev_2.6.30-6_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libc6-dev.
Unpacking libc6-dev (from .../libc6-dev_2.9-25_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libncurses5-dev.
Unpacking libncurses5-dev (from .../libncurses5-dev_5.7+20090803-2_amd64.deb) 
...
Selecting previously deselected package libreadline5-dev.
Unpacking libreadline5-dev (from .../libreadline5-dev_5.2-6_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libreadline6-dev.
Unpacking libreadline6-dev (from .../libreadline6-dev_6.0-3_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libreadline6-dev_6.0-3_amd64.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/readline.info.gz', which is also in 
package libreadline5-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libreadline6-dev_6.0-3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail. Possible
solutions are to have the two packages conflict, to rename the common
file in one of the two packages, or to remove the file from one
package and have this package depend on the other package. File
diversions or a Replace relation are another possibility.

Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
(according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
slightly out of sync):


  usr/include/readline/chardefs.h
  usr/include/readline/history.h
  usr/include/readline/keymaps.h
  usr/include/readline/readline.h
  usr/include/readline/rlconf.h
  usr/include/readline/rlstdc.h
  usr/include/readline/rltypedefs.h
  usr/include/readline/tilde.h
  usr/lib/libhistory.a
  usr/lib/libhistory.so
  usr/lib/libreadline.a
  usr/lib/libreadline.so
  usr/share/info/history.info.gz
  usr/share/info/readline.info.gz
  

This bug is assigned to both packages. If you, the maintainers of
the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package.

-Ralf.



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