[Debichem-devel] Bug#446726: file conflicts between packages

[LI Daobing]

On 10/15/07, Michael Ablassmeier <abi at grinser.de> wrote:
> Package: gromacs, radiance
> Severity: serious
> Justification: policy violation
>
> hi,
>
> both gromacs and radiance ship `/usr/bin/genbox' but do neither conflict nor
> add a diversion, thus fail to be installed in the same environment:
>
>  > Unpacking gromacs (from .../gromacs_3.3.1-7_amd64.deb) ...
>  > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gromacs_3.3.1-7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  >  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/genbox', which is also in package radiance
>  > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>  > Errors were encountered while processing:
>  >  /var/cache/apt/archives/gromacs_3.3.1-7_amd64.deb
>  > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>

I suggest:
rename genbox to g_genbox, add a comment to gromacs' README.Debian,

what's your opinion?

-- 
Best Regards,
 LI Daobing