[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#573941: libtinyxml-dev and libsofa1-dev: error when trying to install together

Mon Mar 15 08:25:29 UTC 2010

Package: libsofa1-dev,libtinyxml-dev
Version: libsofa1-dev/1.0~beta4-3
Version: libtinyxml-dev/2.5.3-1
Severity: serious
User: treinen at debian.org
Usertags: edos-file-overwrite

Date: 2010-03-15
Architecture: amd64
Distribution: sid

Hi,

automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
detected the following problem:

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  x11-common libpcre3 libxml2 ucf libfreetype6 ttf-dejavu-core
  fontconfig-config libfontconfig1 fontconfig libdrm2 libxau6 libxdmcp6
  libxcb1 libx11-data libx11-6 libxfixes3 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxxf86vm1
  libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa freeglut3 libice6 libsm6 libxt6 libaudio2
  libboost-thread1.40.0 libxi6 libxmu6 libglew1.5 libglib2.0-0 libjpeg62
  liblcms1 libmng1 libnewmat10ldbl libpng12-0 libqtcore4 libqt4-xml
  libqt4-dbus libqt4-script libtiff4 libxrender1 libqtgui4 libqt4-designer
  libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-sql libqt4-qt3support libqt4-svg
  libqwt5-qt4 libsofa1 libsofa1-dev libtinyxml2.5.3 libtinyxml-dev
W: cowdancer: unsupported operation flock, read-only open and fchown/fchmod/flock are not supported: tried openning dev:inode of 2055:5408506
W: cowdancer: unsupported operation flock, read-only open and fchown/fchmod/flock are not supported: tried openning dev:inode of 2055:5407760
W: cowdancer: unsupported operation flock, read-only open and fchown/fchmod/flock are not supported: tried openning dev:inode of 2055:5406756

Extracting templates from packages: 55%
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Authentication warning overridden.
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Selecting previously deselected package x11-common.
(Reading database ... 12194 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_1%3a7.5+5_all.deb) ...
W: cowdancer: unsupported operation flock, read-only open and fchown/fchmod/flock are not supported: tried openning dev:inode of 2055:5407760
Selecting previously deselected package libpcre3.
Unpacking libpcre3 (from .../libpcre3_7.8-3_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libxml2.
Unpacking libxml2 (from .../libxml2_2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ucf.
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Moving old data out of the way
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Unpacking libx11-6 (from .../libx11-6_2%3a1.3.3-2_amd64.deb) ...
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Unpacking libxfixes3 (from .../libxfixes3_1%3a4.0.4-2_amd64.deb) ...
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dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libtinyxml-dev_2.5.3-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libtinyxml.so', which is also in package libsofa1-dev 0:1.0~beta4-3
Processing triggers for man-db ...
W: cowdancer: unsupported operation flock, read-only open and fchown/fchmod/flock are not supported: tried openning dev:inode of 2055:5407760
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libtinyxml-dev_2.5.3-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates
sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would
consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming
or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the
circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file
diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a
last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual
Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and
diversions should only be used when packages provide different
implementations for the same functionality.

Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
(according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
slightly out of sync):

  /usr/lib/libtinyxml.so

This bug is assigned to both packages. If you, the maintainers of
the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package.

-Ralf.

PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors
of this kind see http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/.