On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 05:00:53PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> With the rename, I now get this when upgrading:
>
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> bison : Depends: libbison-dev (= 1:2.5.dfsg-2) but it is not installed
>
> ...
>
> Unpacking libbison-dev (from .../libbison-dev_1%3a2.5.dfsg-2_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libbison-dev_1%3a2.5.dfsg-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liby.a', which is also in
> package liby-dev 1:2.5.dfsg-1
> configured to not write apport reports
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was
> killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libbison-dev_1%3a2.5.dfsg-2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> And there doesn't seem to be any way around this using apt.
Workaround for this bug:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/libbison-dev_1%3a2.5.dfsg-2_i386.deb
> The suggested apt-get -f install dies the same was as upgrade, and
> neither remove nor purge can remove the liby-dev package.
>
> One must 'dpkg --purge liby-dev' in order to install libbison-dev.
A "Replaces: liby (= 1:2.5.dfsg-1)" should fix that bug properly.
Unrelated:
yiff should get an epoch in the version number, so that it's liby-dev to
get a higher version number than the bison one.
> -JimC
cu
Adrian
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