<html><head></head><body><div>Hi Johan,</div><div><br></div><div><span><pre>On Mon, 2025-02-10 at 20:11 +0100, Johann Glaser wrote:</pre></span></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Package: lazarus-ide<br></div><div>Version: 3.8+dfsg1-7<br></div><div>Severity: important<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dear Maintainer,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Installing Lazarus 3.8 causes problems (IIRC since the first subversion<br></div><div>3.8+dfsg1-1).<br></div></blockquote><div>Yes, the first versions of Lazarus 3.8 were affected by a bug causing this kind of issue.</div><div>However this bug was solved.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>I used "aptitude" to update, but also on the command line with "dpkg" I<br></div><div>get the same errors:<br></div></blockquote><div>Can you give a bit more precision?</div><div> 1. What aptitude command did you use exactly?</div><div> 2. What version was already installed before you execute that command?</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div># dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/lcl-units-3.8_3.8+dfsg1-7_amd64.deb<br></div><div>/var/cache/apt/archives/lazarus-ide-3.8_3.8+dfsg1-7_amd64.deb<br></div><div>(Reading database ... 646108 files and directories currently<br></div><div>installed.)<br></div><div>Preparing to unpack .../lcl-units-3.8_3.8+dfsg1-7_amd64.deb ...<br></div><div>Unpacking lcl-units-3.8 (3.8+dfsg1-7) over (3.8+dfsg1-6) ...<br></div><div>dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/lcl-<br></div><div>units-3.8_3.8+dfsg1-7_amd64.deb (--install):<br></div><div> trying to overwrite<br></div><div>'/usr/lib/lazarus/3.8/components/IdeInspector/ideinspector.lpk', which<br></div><div>is also</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>...</div></blockquote><div>Can you please check the content of</div><pre>cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/lazarus-src-3.8.preinst</pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>When I install with --force-all, it works with numerous warnings:<br></div><div><br></div><div># dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/lcl-<br></div><div>units-3.8_3.8+dfsg1-7_amd64.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/lazarus-<br></div><div>ide-3.8_3.8+dfsg1-7_amd64.deb<br></div><div>(Reading database ... 646108 files and directories currently<br></div><div>installed.)<br></div><div>Preparing to unpack .../lcl-units-3.8_3.8+dfsg1-7_amd64.deb ...<br></div><div>Unpacking lcl-units-3.8 (3.8+dfsg1-7) over (3.8+dfsg1-6) ...<br></div><div>dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:<br></div><div>dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite<br></div><div>'/usr/lib/lazarus/3.8/components/IdeInspector/ideinspector.lpk', which</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>...</div><div>also in<br></div><div>package lazarus-src-3.8 (3.8+dfsg1-7)<br></div><div>Setting up lcl-units-3.8 (3.8+dfsg1-7) ...<br></div><div>Setting up lazarus-ide-3.8 (3.8+dfsg1-7) ...<br></div><div>update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/lazarus/3.8/startlazarus to provide<br></div><div>/usr/bin/lazarus-ide (lazarus-ide) in auto mode<br></div><div>...</div></blockquote><div>Does it work with this?</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>-- System Information:<br></div><div>Debian Release: trixie/sid<br></div><div> APT prefers stable-security<br></div><div> APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,<br></div><div>'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')<br></div><div>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)<br></div><div>Foreign Architectures: i386<br></div><div>....</div><div>lazarus-ide recommends no packages.<br></div><div><br></div><div>lazarus-ide suggests no packages.<br></div><div>...</div></blockquote><div>Will it be possible to uninstall (maybe purge) all lazarus/lcl packages and install again?</div><div>I just installed a fresh version of 3.8 over a 3.6 and it went as expected.</div><pre style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">-- <br></pre><pre style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></body></html>