Bug#478144: /usr/sbin/grub-mkdevicemap in both grub-common and grub-pc

[Arthur Marsh]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.96+20080413-1
Severity: normal


Whilst trying to upgrade Debian Unstable I experienced the following 
error:

Preparing to replace grub-common 1.96+20080413-1 (using 
.../grub-common_1.96+20080426-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement grub-common ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/grub-common_1.96+20080426-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/grub-mkdevicemap', which is also in 
package grub-pc

dpkg -l grub-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  grub-common    1.96+20080413- GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 
(common
victoria:/usr/src/apt/archives# dpkg -l grub-pc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
iU  grub-pc        1.96+20080426- GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 
(PC/BIOS

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  base-files                    4.0.3      Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

grub-common recommends no packages.

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