It appears these packages are in main but mainly pulled in (at least on my system) by 'devscripts'. This affects cosmic.
** Also affects: alembic (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: astroid (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: astroid (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: alembic (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #907871 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907871 ** Also affects: debian via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907871 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to dh-python in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1794229 Title: python packages should not ship colliding /usr/lib/python3/dist- packages/.pytest_cache Status in alembic package in Ubuntu: New Status in astroid package in Ubuntu: New Status in dh-python package in Ubuntu: New Status in Debian: Unknown Bug description: Python packages should not ship /usr/lib/python3/dist- packages/.pytest_cache Recently, two packages python3-alembic and python3-astroid both shipped these files which collided on package install dh-python has been improved upstream to stream all hidden "dot" directories in Debian #907871 This change should be imported and both alembic and astroid should be rebuilt (plus any other packages shipping this file) Preparing to unpack .../178-python3-astroid_2.0.4-1_all.deb ... Unpacking python3-astroid (2.0.4-1) over (1.6.5-1ubuntu4) ... dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-rbF4wE/178-python3-astroid_2.0.4-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/.pytest_cache/v/cache/nodeids', which is also in package python3-alembic 1.0.0-1ubuntu1 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alembic/+bug/1794229/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp