[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#471790: libgeos-dev: Fail to upgrade due to file conflict

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: libgeos-dev
Version: 2.2.3-4
Severity: serious

When trying to upgrade libgeos-dev in my sid chroot, the upgrade fail
because of a file conflict:

  Unpacking replacement libgeos-dev ...
  dpkg: error processing
    /var/cache/apt/archives/libgeos-dev_3.0.0-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libgeos-3.0.0.so', which is also in
     package libgeos-3.0.0
  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libgeos-dev depends on:
pn  libgeos-c1                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  libgeos2c2a                   2.2.3-4    Geometry engine for Geographic Inf

libgeos-dev recommends no packages.

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