[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#612264: Bug#612264: tk-tile and tk colliding dir

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:01:40PM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Francesco Paolo Lovergine
> <frankie at debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: tcl-dev
> > Version: 8.4.16-2
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > Unpacking replacement tcl-dev ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcl-dev_8.5.0-2_all.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite '/usr/include/tcl', which is also in package tk-tile 0.8.2-2.1
> > configured to not write apport reports
> > Processing triggers for man-db ...
> 
> /usr/include/tcl in tcl-dev is a symlink to /usr/include/tcl8.5
> currently. I think that it's
> better to keep it this way. So, I'd treat this bug as a tk-tile bug.
> 

Uhm, one would not expect tk-tile or any other non-core tcl package has to
manage /usr/include/tcl. Instead it is expected the default tcltk
package is able to cope with transitioning without glitches. So I'm not
sure if some counter-measure should be instead adopted there...

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine