[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-communications 1.0.9-2 [was: Re: communication uninstallable]

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2009-06-06 14:20]:

> * 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.

Actually, the problem was in debian/rules.  The octave-communications-common
files are moved into the right place by the intall/octave-communications-common
rule.  However, since octave-communications-common is an arch-indep package,
the rule above is never called by the autobuilders, and 

I already did the changes in Git and also added the Conflics relationship
I mentioned above.  I will soon upload the pacakge to unstable.

Thanks for noticing the problem.

-- 
Rafael