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

[Antonio Terceiro]

Control: forcemerge 806191 -1

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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 ...

See #806191 for a previous instance of this, and explanation https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806191

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Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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