[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#460726: Bug#460726: libboost-dev: trying to overwrite so file

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Jan 15, 2008 11:44 AM, Domenico Andreoli <cavok at dandreoli.com> wrote:
> both libboost-date-time1.34.1 and libboost-date-time1.34.1-2 provide
> /usr/lib/libboost_date_time-gcc42-1_34_1.so.1.34.1 without conflicting
> each other. same applies to the other libboost packages.
>
> since libboost-*1.34.1-2 have always been only in experimental, i'm
> not really sure if such conflic should be deployed.

Hmm, why the same file name but a different package name then?

What's the proper way to clean up this mess on my system? Remove the
old packages and then install the new ones?