[Pkg-octave-devel] communication uninstallable

Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojsbug at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 18:02:59 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 02:20:59PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug at gmail.com> [2009-06-04 17:14]:
> 
> > Hey, I just tried to install the communication package to see if there
> > was something behind that lintian warning. Well, I couldn't since the
> > comm package that my mirror holds (is.debian.org, but version 1.0.9-1
> > of the package) holds all the .m files so the install fails with:
> > 
> > Unpacking octave-communications (from .../octave-communications_1.0.9-1_i386.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/octave-communications_1.0.9-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite /usr/share/octave/packages/3.0/communications-1.0.9/randintrlv.m',
> > which is also in package octave-communications-common
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> 
> I think we need Conflicts here.  I will take a look at this.

If I understand this correctly then the -commit package is supposed to
contain all the .m files and the other one the .oct files. For all the
architectures, except amd64, this is not the case (take a look at the
list of files http://packages.debian.org/sid/octave-communications).

By some weird reason the first rule in the debian/rules file is not
processed on those architectures.

Cheers

Oli



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