[debian-mysql] Bug#476857: trying to overwrite `/usr/include/mysql/decimal.h', which is also in package libmysqlclient15-dev

[Olaf van der Spek]

Package: libmysqlclient15-dev
Version: 5.1.23rc-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

# apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev/experimental
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Selected version 5.1.23rc-1 (Debian:experimental) for libmysqlclient15-dev
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python2.4-dev python2.4-minimal python2.4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libmysqlclient-dev libmysqlclient15-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmysqlclient-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libmysqlclient15-dev
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6752kB of archives.
After this operation, 598kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Get:1 http://ftp.surfnet.nl experimental/main libmysqlclient-dev 5.1.23rc-1 [6700kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.surfnet.nl experimental/main libmysqlclient15-dev 5.1.23rc-1 [51.1kB]                                                                          
Fetched 6752kB in 10s (658kB/s)                                                                                                                                 
Selecting previously deselected package libmysqlclient-dev.
(Reading database ... 32722 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libmysqlclient-dev (from .../libmysqlclient-dev_5.1.23rc-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmysqlclient-dev_5.1.23rc-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/include/mysql/decimal.h', which is also in package libmysqlclient15-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace libmysqlclient15-dev 5.0.51a-3 (using .../libmysqlclient15-dev_5.1.23rc-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libmysqlclient15-dev ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libmysqlclient-dev_5.1.23rc-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libmysqlclient15-dev depends on:
pn  libmysqlclient-dev            <none>     (no description available)

libmysqlclient15-dev recommends no packages.

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