[DRE-maint] Bug#587913: libcompass-ruby: upgrade broken

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:25:39PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>Package: libcompass-ruby
>Severity: normal
>
>With the risk of hi-jacking an unrelated bugreport, I suspect the issue 
>here is one of failure to *upgrade*, not install from scratch:
>
>Gør klar til at erstatte libcompass-ruby 0.8.17debian-1 (med .../libcompass-ruby_0.10.2debian-1_all.deb)...
>Udpakker erstatning libcompass-ruby...
>dpkg: fejl under behandling af /var/cache/apt/archives/libcompass-ruby_0.10.2debian-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/compass.1.gz', which is also in package libcompass-ruby1.8 0.10.2debian-1
>
>
>If the manpage move is not an accident, I believe you need to make the 
>new unversioned package conflict with (or break? I haven't taken time 
>to understand that new hint yet) the older versioned one.

Correction: Apparently both the *new* unversioned and *new* versioned 
packages provide same manpage.  So seems like an accident which should 
simply be corrected (not a need for transitional conflicts/breaks).


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  - Jonas

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