Bug#526491: libradiusclient-ng-dev and radiusclient1: error when trying to install together

[Ralf Treinen]

Package: radiusclient1,libradiusclient-ng-dev
Version: radiusclient1/0.3.2-11.1
Version: libradiusclient-ng-dev/0.5.6-1
Severity: serious
User: treinen at debian.org
Usertags: edos-file-overwrite

Date: 2009-05-01
Architecture: amd64
Distribution: sid

Hi,

automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
detected the following problem:

[..]
Unpacking libradiusclient-ng-dev (from .../libradiusclient-ng-dev_0.5.6-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libradius1.
Unpacking libradius1 (from .../libradius1_0.3.2-11.1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package radiusclient1.
Unpacking radiusclient1 (from .../radiusclient1_0.3.2-11.1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/radiusclient1_0.3.2-11.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/radacct', which is also in package libradiusclient-ng-dev
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/radiusclient1_0.3.2-11.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail. Possible
solutions are to have the two packages conflict, to rename the common
file in one of the two packages, or to remove the file from one
package and have this package depend on the other package. File
diversions or a Replace relation are another possibility.

Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
(according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
slightly out of sync):


  usr/sbin/login.radius
  usr/sbin/radacct
  usr/sbin/radexample
  usr/sbin/radlogin
  usr/sbin/radstatus
  

This bug is assigned to both packages. If you, the maintainers of
the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package.

-Ralf.