[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#389113: package ntp tries to overwrite /usr/sbin/ntpd in 'testing'

Pjotr Prins pjotr2006 at thebird.nl
Mon Sep 25 19:10:56 UTC 2006


This is a serious bug as it blocks libreadline4/5 - on which many
packages depend in 'testing'.

apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ntp readline-common
Suggested packages:
  ntp-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libreadline4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  readline-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ntp
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 391 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/371kB of archives.
After unpacking 172kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 122160 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ntp 1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1 (using .../ntp_1%3a4.2.2+dfsg.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ntp ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ntp_1%3a4.2.2+dfsg.2-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/ntpd', which is also in package ntp-simple
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ntp_1%3a4.2.2+dfsg.2-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)





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