Bug#670208: minetest-common: Unable to upgrade as tool_woodshovel is also part of minetest 0.3.1+dfsg-2

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: minetest-common
Version: 0.3.1+dfsg-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I was upgrading my system and was suddenly hit by this :-

Unpacking minetest-common (from .../minetest-common_0.3.1+dfsg-3_all.deb) ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=not installed
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/minetest-common_0.3.1+dfsg-3_all.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/minetest/tool_woodshovel.png', which
is also in package minetest 0.3.1+dfsg-2
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Preparing to replace minetest
0.3.1+dfsg-2 (using .../minetest_0.3.1+dfsg-3_amd64.deb) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/minetest-common_0.3.1+dfsg-3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
D000001: cmpversions a=`1:3.3.1-2' b=`1:3.1.1-5' r=2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of minetest:
minetest depends on minetest-common (= 0.3.1+dfsg-3); however:
Package minetest-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing minetest (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

As can be seen there is a conflict in one of the files as it is also
in the other while upgrading.

The workaround for it is just to purge and install it anew where this
issue does not come up. As far as the verbosity of apt/aptitude is
concerned, it's because I want and like it that way.

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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

-- no debconf information

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