Bug#419725: libgail18: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gail.mo'

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:43:37PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 17.04.2007, 18:27 +0200 schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
> > Package: libgail18
> > Version: 1.18.0-2
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I try to install both libgail17 and libgail18, I get the following
> > error:
> > Unpacking libgail18 (from .../libgail18_1.18.0-2_amd64.deb) ...
> > Selecting previously deselected package libgail-common.
> > Unpacking libgail-common (from .../libgail-common_1.18.0-2_amd64.deb) ...
> > Selecting previously deselected package libgail17.
> > Unpacking libgail17 (from .../libgail17_1.8.11-4_amd64.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing /home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable/var/cache/apt/archives/libgail17_1.8.11-4_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gail.mo', which is also in package libgail18
> 
> Hi,
> thanks for your bugreport. This is a transitional failure as libgail17
> will go away very soon after the binNMUs are all handled.

Since libgail17 is in etch, you will still need to deal with it.


Kurt