Bug#697866: libgtk-3-bin fails to upgrade to 3.4.2-5

[Michael Biebl]

On 10.01.2013 18:25, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> Package: libgtk-3-bin
> Version: 3.4.2-5
> Severity: serious
> 
> When trying to upgrade from 3.4.2-4 to 3.4.2-5 I get following error and
> aptitude aborts
> 
> Adding 'diversion of /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches to /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 by libgtk-3-bin'
> dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2' with
>   different file `/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches', not allowed
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.4.2-5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.4.2-5_amd64.deb
> 
> This leaves the package management in broken state hence I marked the
> bug as serious

The relevant code hasn't been changed for ages, so I really doubt that
it is a problem specific to 3.4.2-5.

What does
dpkg -S /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches
give you.
Which version of libgtk2.0-0 do you have installed?
What's the output of
md5sum /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches*

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