This one time, at band camp, Jason Pepas said: > hello, > > I think there might be a bug with the perl-doc package in the testing branch. > > (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ apt-get install perl-doc > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > perl-doc > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 233 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/3886kB of archives. After unpacking 7516kB will be used. > (Reading database ... 111847 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking perl-doc (from .../perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb) ... > Leaving `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc' > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb > (--unpac > k): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz', which is also in > package > perl > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ dpkg -i --force-overwrite > perl-doc_ > 5.6.1-7_all.deb > (Reading database ... 111847 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking perl-doc (from perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb) ... > Leaving `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc' > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz', which is also in > package > perl > Setting up perl-doc (5.6.1-7) ...
I agree. File a bug report on perl-doc. It is difficult when decisions are made to move a file from one package to another, but it should be more transparent to the user. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | BOFH excuse #231: We had to turn off | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that service to comply with the CDA | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Bill. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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