Bug#649066: libmason-perl and mason: error when trying to install together

Florian Schlichting fschlich at CIS.FU-Berlin.DE
Thu Nov 17 18:03:31 UTC 2011


reassign 649066 libmason-perl
forwarded 649066 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72497
thanks

> Unpacking mason (from .../mason_1.0.0-12.2_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mason_1.0.0-12.2_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/mason', which is also in package libmason-perl 2.14-1

Since libmason-perl is the "new kid", I'm taking the responsiblity to
work with upstream on a name change. Alternatives I suggested include
/usr/bin/mason2 and /usr/bin/mason-cli.

Florian





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