Bug#680484: gmap and scotch: error when trying to install together

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On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 11:14 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: gmap,scotch
> Version: scotch/5.1.12b.dfsg-1.1
> Severity: serious
> User: treinen at debian.org
> Usertags: edos-file-overwrite
> 
> Date: 2012-06-16
> 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:
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package scotch.
>   Unpacking scotch (from .../scotch_5.1.12b.dfsg-1.1_amd64.deb) ...
>   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/scotch_5.1.12b.dfsg-1.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gmap.1.gz', which is also in package gmap 2012-06-12-1
>   dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/scotch_5.1.12b.dfsg-1.1_amd64.deb
> 
> 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/bin/gmap
>   usr/share/man/man1/gmap.1.gz
> 
> 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. You may
> also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug.
> 
> - Andreas
> 
> PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors
> of this kind see http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/.

Hi,
I just upload a fix on Debian science git.

Hope it helps
Best
C