[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#443420: Bug#443420: Confirm bug

[Isaac Freeman]

Sorry, I thought I replied to this e-mail last week, but its not
showing up in the bug tracker.

Anyways, here's what dpkg tells me:
(1) isaac at memotype:~$ dpkg -s libsnmp-base
Package: libsnmp-base
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 3032
Maintainer: Net-SNMP Packaging Team <pkg-net-snmp-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: net-snmp
Version: 5.2.3-7
Replaces: snmp (<= 3.6.2-3), libsnmp, zebra, zebra-pj, quagga
Provides: libsnmp
Conflicts: libsnmp
...

and here is the output of aptitude when trying to install:
(0) isaac at memotype:~$ sudo aptitude install netperf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  libsnmp15
The following packages have been kept back:
 ...
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  snmp
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 333 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libsnmp15: Depends: libsnmp-base (>= 5.4.1~dfsg-6) but 5.2.3-7 is
installed and it is kept back.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Upgrade the following packages:
libsnmp-base [5.2.3-7 (now) -> 5.4.1~dfsg-6 (testing)]

Score is 120

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following packages have been kept back:
 ...
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libsnmp-base
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  libsnmp15 snmp
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 332 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1368kB of archives. After unpacking 455kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 145555 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libsnmp-base 5.2.3-7 (using
.../libsnmp-base_5.4.1~dfsg-6_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libsnmp-base ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libsnmp-base_5.4.1~dfsg-6_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/net-snmp-config.1.gz', which
is also in package libsnmp9-dev
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libsnmp-base_5.4.1~dfsg-6_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsnmp15:
 libsnmp15 depends on libsnmp-base (>= 5.4.1~dfsg-6); however:
  Version of libsnmp-base on system is 5.2.3-7.
dpkg: error processing libsnmp15 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of snmp:
 snmp depends on libsnmp15 (>= 5.4.1~dfsg); however:
  Package libsnmp15 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing snmp (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libsnmp15
 snmp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done


thanks

-- 
Isaac Freeman
memotype (at) gmail.com