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and subject line Re: Bug#544480: diffutils not installable - should conflict
with diff
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: diffutils
Version: 1:2.8.1-16
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.4
diffutils installation fails when package diff is installed, probably
due to a missing Conflicts:
Selecting previously deselected package diffutils.
(Reading database ... 401114 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking diffutils (from .../diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/diff', which is also in package diff
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages diffutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
diffutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages diffutils suggests:
pn diffutils-doc <none> (no description available)
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: diffutils
> Version: 1:2.8.1-16
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 7.4
>
> diffutils installation fails when package diff is installed, probably
> due to a missing Conflicts:
>
> Selecting previously deselected package diffutils.
> (Reading database ... 401114 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking diffutils (from .../diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/diff', which is also in package diff
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/diffutils_1%3a2.8.1-16_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Most probably, you have the old diff from experimental installed.
Do you really want to downgrade to version 2.8.1?
If so, please do this:
dpkg --force-remove-essential --purge diff
apt-get install diffutils
I promise that nothing will break by doing that.
OTOH, if you still want diff version 2.8.7 in your system, why in
earth did you remove experimental from sources.list? That's definitely
NOT supported. There is a dummy diff package in experimental which
smoothly upgrades to diffutils in experimental.
So, to summarize: Either use unstable or use unstable+experimental,
but installing packages from experimental and then removing it from
sources.list is not supported.
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