Bug#440704: Package vim completely broken on alpha

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Tue Sep 4 01:57:16 UTC 2007


On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:19:17PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> Installation of vim on alpha fails with the following error:
> 
> Unpacking vim-common (from .../vim-common_1%3a6.3-071+1sarge2_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking vim (from .../vim_1%3a6.3-071+1sarge2_alpha.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vim_1%3a6.3-071+1sarge2_alpha.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/vim/vim63/vimrc_example.vim', which is also in package vim-common
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/vim_1%3a6.3-071+1sarge2_alpha.deb
> 
> However, the duplicate file isn't the only problem. The package is also
> missing the vim executable, instead it contains lots of HTML files which
> seem to belong in vim-doc (but it's not exactly like vim-doc either, so
> it's not just a matter of mixed-up filenames).
> 
> The packages for i386 and sparc seem to be ok.

The archs that have this problem are alpha, mipsel, and mips.  I'm not
quite sure why these archs had different builds and I don't have build
logs to look over.  Moritz, would you be able to take a look at this or
inform whoever would be able to see what happened?

Thanks,

James
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GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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