[DRE-maint] Bug#808956: ruby-hpricot: uninstallable due to file overwrite conflict with direct dependency ruby-fast-xs

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: retitle -1 ruby-hpricot: package contains fast_xs.so if built with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck
Control: tag -1 sid stretch

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Unpacking ruby-hpricot (0.8.6-5+b1) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ruby-hpricot_0.8.6-5+b1_m68k.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/m68k-linux-gnu/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.2.0/fast_xs.so', which is also in package ruby-fast-xs 0.8.0-3+b1

At a first glance I thought this is m68k specific ... no release
architecture contains the conflicting file.

But it's also reproducible on amd64 if built with nocheck.

debian/ruby-tests.rb contains
  system("find -name fast_xs.so -delete")
which seems to be the wrong place to do this ...


Andreas