[Python-modules-team] Bug#866620: Error when installing together with debconf, overwriting files

[Andreas Moog]

Package: python3-cairo
Version: 1.10.0+dfsg-5+b2
Severity: serious

Hello there,

I get the following error when trying to install python3-cairo:

(sid-amd64)root at inkubator:~# apt install python3-cairo debconf
[...]
Unpacking python3-cairo (1.10.0+dfsg-5+b2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-BrlSR6/32-python3-cairo_1.10.0+dfsg-5+b2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py', which is also in package debconf 1.5.61
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

If you need any more information, feel free to ask.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (650, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (450, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages python3-cairo depends on:
ii  libc6      2.24-12
ii  libcairo2  1.14.8-1
ii  python3    3.5.3-3

python3-cairo recommends no packages.

python3-cairo suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information