[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#501648: Bug#501648: reminder: octave3.0-common must conflict with older octave3.0 packages

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-10-09 10:06]:

> Package: octave3.0
> Version: 1:3.0.1-6lenny1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> This is a reminder for myself, as current upgrades to experimental packages
> fail:
> 
> Unpacking octave3.0-common (from octave3.0-common_3.0.3-1_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing octave3.0-common_3.0.3-1_all.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/enscript/hl/octave.st', which is also in package octave3.0
> 
> I won't address this now, though: let's first get Lenny out of the door and
> remove the 2.1/2.9 cruft from the control files.

This will cease to be a problem when enscript 1.6.4-13 will be uploaded to
unstable.  In this version, a patch of mine [1] has been added [2], such
that octave.st will be provided by enscript.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457244
[2] http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/enscript.git;a=commitdiff;h=43e55616fbc54be4733d8bffcd97ff9af9c1771d;hp=6cb4ec23a3956a65e0b013a3519440596a1f052f

-- 
Rafael