Bug#381607: [Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#381607: textlive-common: Trying to overwrite file that is also in texlive-doc-base

[Micah Anderson]

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Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Micah!
> 
> On Sam, 05 Aug 2006, Micah Anderson wrote:
>> Package: textlive-common
>> Version: 2005-2
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>
>> Impossible to install because of this error:
>>
>> dpkg: error processing
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-common_2005-2_all.deb (--unpack):
>>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/README.RU.gz', which is
>> also in package texlive-doc-base
> 
> Can you please tell me which version of texlive-doc-base you have had
> installed? README.RU.gz is in texlive-common since texlive first entered
> unstable, so you seem to have had some experimental versions installed.

texlive-doc-base:
  Installed: 2005-1
  Candidate: 2005-2
  Version table:
     2005-2 0
        500 http://mirror.direct.ca unstable/main Packages
 *** 2005-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


> 
> Please install texlive-doc-base 2005-2 and then the rest.

If I do that it still gives me the error because it tries to install
texlive-common first:

# apt-get install texlive-doc-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  texlive-common
The following NEW packages will be installed
  texlive-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  texlive-doc-base
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/820kB of archives.
After unpacking 649kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 216472 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking texlive-common (from .../texlive-common_2005-2_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-common_2005-2_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/README.RU.gz', which is
also in package texlive-doc-base
Preparing to replace texlive-doc-base 2005-1 (using
.../texlive-doc-base_2005-2_all.deb) ...
Upgrade from experimental versions are not supported!
Please purge all texlive packages before installation.
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-doc-base_2005-2_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time. ... done.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-common_2005-2_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-doc-base_2005-2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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