Bug#800879: libmetacity-private3a: failes to install if libmetacity-private3 is installed

[James Cowgill]

Package: libmetacity-private3a
Version: 1:3.18.0-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

libmetacity-private3a does not install properly if libmetacity-private3
is already installed. When I retried this it suceeded because apt
decided to remove libmetacity-private3 first, but the first time I
upgraded the package and if is installed manually, it fails.

# dpkg -l libmetacity-private*
...
ii  libmetacity-private3            1:3.17.2-4

# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libmetacity-private3a_1%3a3.18.0-1_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package libmetacity-private3a.
(Reading database ... 23001 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libmetacity-private3a_1%3a3.18.0-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libmetacity-private3a (1:3.18.0-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libmetacity-private3a_1%3a3.18.0-1_amd64.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libmetacity-private.so.3.0.0', which is also in package libmetacity-private3 1:3.17.2-4
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libmetacity-private3a_1%3a3.18.0-1_amd64.deb

Thanks,
James
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