Bug#789444: mate-indicator-applet: Cannot install mate-indicator-applet due to duplicate .mo file in both the packages

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: mate-indicator-applet
Version: 1.10.0-1~exp1
Justification: renders package unusable
Severity: grave

Dear Maintainer,
I was upgrading mate-indicator-applet when ran into this :-

[$] sudo aptitude install mate-indicator-applet=1.10.0-1~exp1
mate-indicator-applet-common=1.10.0-1~exp1 -y

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mate-indicator-applet-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mate-indicator-applet
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 93.6 kB of archives. After unpacking 553 kB will be freed.
Get: 1 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ experimental/main
mate-indicator-applet-common all 1.10.0-1~exp1 [64.2 kB]
Get: 2 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ experimental/main
mate-indicator-applet amd64 1.10.0-1~exp1 [29.4 kB]
Fetched 93.6 kB in 2s (36.6 kB/s)
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: changelogs for debian
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: ensure_statoverrides: new, (re)loading
Selecting previously unselected package mate-indicator-applet-common.
(Reading database ... 918691 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mate-indicator-applet-common_1.10.0-1~exp1_all.deb ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=not installed
Unpacking mate-indicator-applet-common (1.10.0-1~exp1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/mate-indicator-applet-common_1.10.0-1~exp1_all.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite
'/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/mate-indicator-applet.mo', which is
also in package mate-indicator-applet 1.8.0-4
Preparing to unpack .../mate-indicator-applet_1.10.0-1~exp1_amd64.deb ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed
Unpacking mate-indicator-applet (1.10.0-1~exp1) over (1.8.0-4) ...
D000001: process_archive updating info directory
D000001: generating infodb hashfile
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.1' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.1' b='0:1.16' r=2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-indicator-applet-common_1.10.0-1~exp1_all.deb
needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Failed to perform requested operation on package.  Trying to recover:
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: process queue pkg mate-indicator-applet:amd64 queue.len 0
progress 1, try 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mate-indicator-applet:
 mate-indicator-applet depends on mate-indicator-applet-common (=
1.10.0-1~exp1); however:
  Package mate-indicator-applet-common is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package mate-indicator-applet (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.1' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.1' b='0:1.16' r=2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mate-indicator-applet

Current status: 1 broken [+1], 1 update [-1].

Also :-

[$] aptitude why mate-indicator-applet-common

B   mate-indicator-applet Depends mate-indicator-applet-common (= 1.10.0-1~exp1)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-indicator-applet depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   2.16.0-2
ii  libc6                         2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                     1.14.2-2
ii  libfontconfig1                2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6                  2.5.2-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.31.4-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.45.2-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.28-1
ii  libindicator7                 0.5.0-2
ii  libmate-panel-applet-4-1      1.10.0+dfsg1-1~exp1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0           1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0             1.36.8-3
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.6.2-3
pn  mate-indicator-applet-common  <none>
ii  mate-panel                    1.10.0+dfsg1-1~exp1

mate-indicator-applet recommends no packages.

mate-indicator-applet suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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