Bug#712225: scilab: cannot upgrade : circular overwrite issue scilab-minimal-bin vs scilab-full-bin

[Alban Browaeys]

Package: scilab
Version: 5.4.1-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
Upgrade leads to this circular overwrite errors:


Preparing to replace scilab-full-bin 5.4.1-1 (using
.../scilab-full-bin_5.4.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement scilab-full-bin ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/scilab-full-bin_5.4.1-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/scilab/libscitypes.so.5.4.1', which is
also in package scilab-minimal-bin 5.4.1-1
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Preparing to replace
scilab-minimal-bin 5.4.1-1 (using
.../scilab-minimal-bin_5.4.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement scilab-minimal-bin ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/scilab-minimal-bin_5.4.1-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/scilab/libscixml.so.5.4.1', which is also
in package scilab-full-bin 5.4.1-1
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/scilab-full-bin_5.4.1-2_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/scilab-minimal-bin_5.4.1-2_amd64.deb
Error: Timeout was reached
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libscilab2-java:
 libscilab2-java depends on scilab-full-bin (>= 5.4.1-2); however:
  Version of scilab-full-bin on system is 5.4.1-1.

dpkg: error processing libscilab2-java (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of scilab-cli:
 scilab-cli depends on scilab-minimal-bin (>= 5.4.1-2); however:
  Version of scilab-minimal-bin on system is 5.4.1-1.

dpkg: error processing scilab-cli (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of scilab:
 scilab depends on scilab-cli (>= 5.4.1-2); however:
  Package scilab-cli is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing scilab (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libscilab2-java
 scilab-cli
 scilab
                                         


Best regards,
Alban

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages scilab depends on:
iu  scilab-cli       5.4.1-2
ii  scilab-full-bin  5.4.1-1

Versions of packages scilab recommends:
ii  scilab-doc  5.4.1-2

Versions of packages scilab suggests:
ii  scilab-doc-fr     5.4.1-2
pn  scilab-doc-ja     <none>
pn  scilab-doc-pt-br  <none>

-- no debconf information