Bug#774073: dh-make-perl: Ceating core module, install fails with "trying to overwrite foo which is also in bar"

Andrew Beverley andy at andybev.com
Sat Sep 26 15:55:05 UTC 2015


On Sun, 2014-12-28 at 12:19 +0000, Andy Beverley wrote:
> When creating an updated version of a module that is already in core,
> the subsequent install fails (as expected) with a message such as:
> "trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/instmodsh', which is also in package
> perl 5.14.2-21+deb7u2".

I'm having another look at this, but I have some memory fade. Does anyone
know why I put rules.dh.core in debian/ rather than share/ ?

Which one should it be in?

Thanks,

Andy



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