[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#479501: Bug#479501: file conflicts between packages

Pierre Habouzit madcoder at debian.org
Mon May 5 10:04:34 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:22:17AM +0000, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
> Package: cherokee, lighttpd
> Severity: serious
> Justification: policy violation
> 
> hi,
> 
> both cherokee and lighttpd  ship
>  `/usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.1.gz'
> but do neither conflict, nor add a diversion, thus fail to be installed in the
> same environment:
> 
>  > Unpacking lighttpd (from .../lighttpd_1.4.19-2_amd64.deb) ...
>  > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/lighttpd_1.4.19-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.1.gz', which is also in package cherokee
>  > Processing triggers for man-db ...
>  > Errors were encountered while processing:
>  >  /var/cache/apt/archives/lighttpd_1.4.19-2_amd64.deb
>  > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> bye,
>     - michael

  Hmm for all I can see, both "spawn-fcgi" seem to come from the very
same implementation, they are totally compatible wrt arguments on the
CLI, and their usage is almost the same (except for version and
copyright informations, which suggest abuse from one of both binaries,
if not both, but that's not the question here).

  Given that, I assume alternative is the best way to deal with this,
and cherokee's man page is better, so I'd suggest the cherokee
spawn-fcgi{,.1.gz} to be the highest priority.

  Gunnar: If you agree, I'll fix that in a lighttpd 1.4.19-3 upload, so
you'd have to conflict with lighttpd << 1.4.19-3 and I'll probably have
to conflict with cherokee << 0.6.1-2 so that one is forced to migrate to
a package that uses alternatives before trying to coinstall.

Cheers,
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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