[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#500660: liblapack-doc: failed to upgrade when libblas-doc is installed

[Ryo IGARASHI]

Package: liblapack-doc
Version: 3.1.1-4
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.4

Hi,
liblapack-doc tries to install duplicating manual pages found in libblas-doc package.
When tries to upgrade from 3.1.1-3 to 3.1.1-4, aptitude fails with following output:

(Reading database ... 169935 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace liblapack-doc 3.1.1-3 (using .../liblapack-doc_3.1.1-4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement liblapack-doc ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblapack-doc_3.1.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man3/xerbla.3.gz', which is also in package libblas-doc
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 4 changed doc-base file(s)...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/liblapack-doc_3.1.1-4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Best regards,
-- 
Ryo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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