Bug#384246: boson conflicts with boson-base; boson can't be upgraded

[Eddy Petrisor]

Package: boson
Version: 0.11-4
Severity: serious
Justification: upgrade path is not offered


Hello fellows,

I found that boson is not upgradable to 0.12dfsg-1 on my system because
it contains a file which is also part of boson-base.

merci ~ # LANG=C aptitude upgrade boson
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  boson-base
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-wlan-ng-firmware
The following packages will be upgraded:
  boson
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.5MB of archives. After unpacking 5374kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.ro.debian.org unstable/main boson 0.12dfsg1-1 [10.5MB]
Fetched 10.5MB in 3s (3042kB/s)
(Reading database ... 90115 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace boson 0.11-4 (using
..../boson_0.12dfsg1-1_powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement boson ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/boson_0.12dfsg1-1_powerpc.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/games/bobmfconverter', which is also in
package boson-base
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/boson_0.12dfsg1-1_powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.17-merci
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages boson depends on:
ii  boson-base                    0.11-4     core package for Boson
ii  boson-data                    0.12-1     Datas for Boson, a real-time strat
ii  boson-music                   0.12-1     Music Pack for Boson, a real-time 

boson recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information