Bug#330247: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#330247: Install failed. Trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/de/man1/login.1.gz which is also in manpages-de

[Alexander Gattin]

> clone 330247 -1
> reassign -1 manpages-ru
> retitle -1 Please stop providing outdated manpages
> thanks

Hi!

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:13:58AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Jan Brüninghaus (jan at brueninghaus-online.de):
> > Package: login
> > Version: 1:4.0.3-39
> > Severity: grave
> > Tags: l10n
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > The package tries to overwrite /usr/share/man/de/man1/login.1.gz which
> > is also in the package "manpages-de".

BTW, you need to check other manpages -- I did this
e.g. with sort | uniq -d

> Which is fairly logical as login is a binary provided in login..:-)

oops, I saw the same for manpages-ru package ;) and
just purged it to be able to install new
login/passwd...

Thus just citing you for manpages-ru maintainers:
> So, sorry to say this, but manpages-de should stop providing login.1
> which is anyway certainly completely outdated.
> 
> We will have to recompile a new version of shadow, conflicting with
> all versions of manpages-de (we already had a "Replaces" on
> manpages-de ((<= 0.4-4)).
> 
> Sigh...

Of course, WRT manpages-ru, the bug is for different
file, namely /usr/share/man/ru/man5/passwd.5.gz
(AFAIS there are no other intersections):
> penguin:~# apt-get install manpages-ru/unstable
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Selected version 0.98-2 (Debian:testing) for manpages-ru
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   manpages-ru
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 154 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/589kB of archives.
> After unpacking 1163kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Selecting previously deselected package manpages-ru.
> (Reading database ... 192132 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking manpages-ru (from .../manpages-ru_0.98-2_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages-ru_0.98-2_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/ru/man5/passwd.5.gz', which is also in package passwd
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages-ru_0.98-2_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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