Bug#592332: libmodule-corelist-perl: file conflict during upgrade

[Török Edwin]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:53:32 +0200
Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonaccorso at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 01:25:56PM +0300, Török Edwin wrote:
> > Package: libmodule-corelist-perl
> > Version: 2.35-1
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > Tried to dist-upgrade today, but perl wouldn't upgrade due to a
> > conflict with libmodule-corelist-perl.
> > I removed libmodule-corelist-perl (and perl-doc too, opened
> > separate bug for that), but now I can't install
> > libmodule-corelist-perl back: sudo apt-get install
> > libmodule-corelist-perl Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   libmodule-corelist-perl
> > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 604 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B/69.1kB of archives.
> > After this operation, 922kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Reading package fields... Done
> > Reading package status... Done
> > Retrieving bug reports... Done
> > Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
> > Selecting previously deselected package libmodule-corelist-perl.
> > (Reading database ... 552853 files and directories currently
> > installed.) Unpacking libmodule-corelist-perl
> > (from .../libmodule-corelist-perl_2.36-1_all.deb) ... Adding
> > 'diversion of /usr/bin/corelist to /usr/bin/corelist.bundled by
> > libmodule-corelist-perl' dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting
> > `/usr/bin/corelist.bundled' with different file
> > `/usr/bin/corelist', not allowed dpkg: error
> > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmodule-corelist-perl_2.36-1_all.deb
> > (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error
> > exit status 2 Errors were encountered while
> > processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libmodule-corelist-perl_2.36-1_all.deb
> 
> From where exaclty are you trying to update? I did too a dist-upgrade
> right now, updating perl and later installing libmodule-corelist-perl:
> 
> ...
> Setting up perl-modules (5.10.1-14) ...
> Setting up perl (5.10.1-14) ...
> ...
> 
> Then installing libmodule-corelist-perl:
> 
> # aptitude install libmodule-corelist-perl
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libmodule-corelist-perl
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not
> upgraded. Need to get 69.1kB of archives. After unpacking 922kB will
> be used. Get:1 http://ftp.ch.debian.org sid/main
> libmodule-corelist-perl 2.36-1 [69.1kB] Fetched 69.1kB in 0s
> (2,201kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package
> libmodule-corelist-perl. (Reading database ... 122784 files and
> directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmodule-corelist-perl
> (from .../libmodule-corelist-perl_2.36-1_all.deb) ... Adding
> 'diversion of /usr/bin/corelist to /usr/bin/corelist.bundled by
> libmodule-corelist-perl' Adding 'diversion
> of /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.1.gz
> to /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz by
> libmodule-corelist-perl' Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting
> up libmodule-corelist-perl (2.36-1) ...

I think this one is related to 499096.
Its still not installable and my /var/lib/dpkg/diversions is empty.
Is that expected, or did a buggy package wipe it?

> 
> ...
> 
> So could you give some more information about the upgrade? Do you
> still have the full output?

Yep, I'm sending you the logs privately (several megabytes, don't want
to flood the list).

Best regards,
--Edwin