[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#457191: octave2.1: Should conflict with octave2.9

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 12:44:41 UTC 2007


Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2007, 21:35 +1000 schrieb Ted Percival:
> Package: octave2.1
> Version: 1:2.1.73-14
> Severity: important
> 
> octave2.1 cannot be installed when octave2.9 is installed. Neither
> package has a Conflicts relationship so the failure happens when dpkg
> tries to install the package:
> 
> > Unpacking octave2.1 (from .../octave2.1_1%3a2.1.73-14_i386.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/octave2.1_1%3a2.1.73-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/enscript/hl/octave.st', which is also
> >  in package octave2.9

Shouldn't this file be added to the enscript package instead? 

	Thomas




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