[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#389113: package ntp tries to overwrite /usr/sbin/ntpd which is in package ntp-simple

[Alvaro Herrera]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-9
Severity: important


I was doing an apt-get update which included an upgrade of packages ntp,
ntp-simple and ntpdate.  During the unpacking on ntp, I got this:

Desempaquetando el reemplazo de ntp ...
dpkg: error al procesar /var/cache/apt/archives/ntp_1%3a4.2.2+dfsg.2-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 intentando sobreescribir `/usr/sbin/ntpd', que está también en el paquete ntp-simple
dpkg-deb: el subproceso paste fue terminado por la señal (Tubería rota)

Rough reverse translation is:

Unpacking the replacement of ntp ...
dpkg: error while processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ntp_1%3a4.2.2+dfsg.2-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/ntpd', which is also in package ntp-simple
dpkg-deb: the paste subprocess was ended with signal (Broken pipe)


Following that, package ntp-simple was upgraded to 1:4.2.2.+dfsg.2-1.

After the error, I restarted (apt-get -f install) and it successfully
installed the package ntp and continued configuring the rest of
packages.  So this sounds to me like a trivial packaging bug in the
transitional package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=es_CL, LC_CTYPE=es_CL (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                      1:1.10-14   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                 5.1-8       GNU readline and history libraries
pn  libssl0.9.8                  <none>      (no description available)
ii  perl-modules                 5.8.8-6.1   Core Perl modules
ii  psmisc                       22.3-1      Utilities that use the proc filesy

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
pn  ntp-server                    <none>     (no description available)

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