[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#935578: Bug#935578: bat: bacula-console-qt already ships /usr/sbin/bat (and /usr/share/man/man1/bat.1.gz)

[Paride Legovini]

Andreas Beckmann wrote on 24/08/2019:
> Package: bat
> Version: 0.11.0-2
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install
> because it tries to overwrite other packages files.
> 
> Since /usr/sbin/bat is already provided by another package, you can't
> ship a different binary as /usr/bin/bat.
> I noticed this by the clash on the manpage.
> 
> From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package bat.
>   Preparing to unpack .../11-bat_0.11.0-2_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking bat (0.11.0-2) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-xqEwrF/11-bat_0.11.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/bat.1.gz', which is also in package bacula-console-qt 9.4.4-2+b1
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-xqEwrF/11-bat_0.11.0-2_amd64.deb

:(

Thanks Andreas for the heads-up, I missed this name clash. I knew tat
the 'bat' binary name and manpage were taken by the bareos-bat package
up to Buster. That package has now been dropped, and I happily packaged
'bat' without renames, as I didn't know that bacula-console-qt was
installing those files too; bareos-bat had a Conflits/Replaces on
bacula-console-qt, so there was no name clash in that case.

I guess I'll have to rename some files here. This isn't obvious at the
moment as the build dependencies for rust-bat are not satisfied in unstable.

Paride