Bug#549637: libqsearch1-headers and libqsearch-gomp-dev: error when trying to install together

[Ralf Treinen]

Package: libqsearch-gomp-dev,libqsearch1-headers
Version: libqsearch-gomp-dev/1.0.8-2
Version: libqsearch1-headers/1.0.8-2
Severity: serious
User: treinen at debian.org
Usertags: edos-file-overwrite

Date: 2009-10-05
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!
  libpcre3 libxml2 libglib2.0-0 libgsl0ldbl libcomplearn1 pkg-config
  libglib2.0-dev libgomp1 libgsl0-dev libqsearch-gomp1 libxml2-dev
  libqsearch1-headers libqsearch-gomp-dev
Authentication warning overridden.
Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?)
Selecting previously deselected package libpcre3.
(Reading database ... 10249 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libpcre3 (from .../libpcre3_7.8-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libxml2.
Unpacking libxml2 (from .../libxml2_2.7.5.dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libglib2.0-0.
Unpacking libglib2.0-0 (from .../libglib2.0-0_2.22.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgsl0ldbl.
Unpacking libgsl0ldbl (from .../libgsl0ldbl_1.13+dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libcomplearn1.
Unpacking libcomplearn1 (from .../libcomplearn1_1.1.5-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package pkg-config.
Unpacking pkg-config (from .../pkg-config_0.22-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libglib2.0-dev.
Unpacking libglib2.0-dev (from .../libglib2.0-dev_2.22.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgomp1.
Unpacking libgomp1 (from .../libgomp1_4.4.1-5_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgsl0-dev.
Unpacking libgsl0-dev (from .../libgsl0-dev_1.13+dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libqsearch-gomp1.
Unpacking libqsearch-gomp1 (from .../libqsearch-gomp1_1.0.8-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libxml2-dev.
Unpacking libxml2-dev (from .../libxml2-dev_2.7.5.dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libqsearch1-headers.
Unpacking libqsearch1-headers (from .../libqsearch1-headers_1.0.8-2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libqsearch-gomp-dev.
Unpacking libqsearch-gomp-dev (from .../libqsearch-gomp-dev_1.0.8-2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libqsearch-gomp-dev_1.0.8-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/qsearch-maketree.h', which is also in package libqsearch1-headers 0:1.0.8-2
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libqsearch-gomp-dev_1.0.8-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail. Possible
solutions are to have the two packages conflict, to rename the common
file in one of the two packages, or to remove the file from one
package and have this package depend on the other package. File
diversions or a Replace relation are another possibility.

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/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch.h
  usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/clconfig.h
  usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/qsearch-fulltree.h
  usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/qsearch-maketree-private.h
  usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/qsearch-maketree.h
  usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/qsearch-neighborlist.h
  usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/qsearch-tree.h
  usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/qsearch-treemaster.h
  usr/include/qsearch-1.0/qsearch/qsearch.h
  

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.