[Debichem-devel] Bug#816699: Bug#816699: libga-dev and libarmci-mpi-dev: error when trying to install together

Michael Banck mbanck at debian.org
Fri Mar 4 19:12:10 UTC 2016


Hi,

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 06:30:01AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> 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 libarmci-mpi-dev.
> (Reading database ... 10939 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../libarmci-mpi-dev_0.0~git20160222-1_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libarmci-mpi-dev (0.0~git20160222-1) ...
> Selecting previously unselected package libga-dev.
> Preparing to unpack .../libga-dev_5.4~beta~r10636+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libga-dev (5.4~beta~r10636+dfsg-2) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libga-dev_5.4~beta~r10636+dfsg-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libarmci.a', which is also in package libarmci-mpi-dev 0.0~git20160222-1
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libga-dev_5.4~beta~r10636+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks for the report.  I guess it makes sense considering armci-mpi is
a reimplementation oft the libarmci.a library in GA.

The mid-term plan is to build GA against libarmci-dev, I guess we
should remove or rename the internal libarmci.a (plus its headers) from
libga-dev.


Michael



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