[Python-apps-team] Bug#714891: veusz-helpers: fails to upgrade from wheezy - trying to overwrite /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/veusz/resources

[Jeremy Sanders]

Thanks for the report. I think the error occurs because there are 
resource symlinks in both the veusz and veusz-helpers packages.

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/veusz/resources

Unfortunately, I don't know why the resources symlink is in 
veusz-helpers (rather than just in veusz). veusz-helpers.install from 
the packaging just contains
  usr/lib/python*/*-packages/veusz/helpers/*[!_][!_].so
so there should only be shareables in that package.

If I build the latest veusz (1.18) from the PAPT repository, there is no 
resources link in veusz-helpers. I don't think any changes have been 
made to the packaging in this respect.

I can only link that there has been a bug in debhelper which has been fixed.

Jeremy Sanders