On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 10:28:09AM +0100, Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To me this always implied that file conflicts between packages aren't > > possible in this situation, either (and I even think I tried it out). > > After all, it's not a bug for two packages to ship the same directory. > > > But it causes a problem if one package ships the file as symlink and > the other as directory. > > > Moreover, I don't see how this problem can be fixed in iceweasel, > > and why it is not RC for dwww to fail to install when iceweasel is > > present. > > > I had the way round: iceweasel upgrade and having dwww installed. > iceweasel tries to overwrite the directory shipped by dwww. I guess > the bug is reproducible quite easy.
We had the same problem with iceape and extensions like checky and quite some others. dpkg never complained about it, and did not try to replace the directory by the symlink. This led to iceape being utterly broken, but not in iceape uninstallability... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
