Bug#269235: after woody to sarge upgrade, dvipdfm cannot be removed
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-20
Severity: important
Hello,
I have just made a woody to sarge upgrade. At this point
it is not possible to remove dvipdfm:
meli# apt-get remove dvipdfm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dvipdfm
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 429kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 79175 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing dvipdfm ...
Removing `diversion of /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvipdfm.def to /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvipdfm.def.tetex by dvipdfm'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvipdfm.def' with
different file `/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvipdfm.def.tetex', not allowed
dpkg: error processing dvipdfm (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
dvipdfm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Since this affect the sarge release, I have X-D-CC: debian-release.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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