Bug#355250: tetex-doc: collides with tetex-doc-nonfree

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

severity 355250 serious
tags 355250 pending
thanks

"Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE> wrote:

> tetex-doc-nonfree contains files which are also in tetex-doc 3.0-15.
>
> Unpacking tetex-doc-nonfree (from .../tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/texmf/context/base/ms-cb-en.pdf.gz', which is also in package tetex-doc
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-doc-nonfree_1.0-1_all.deb

Thanks for reporting, this is a serious policy violation.

> I know that tetex-doc-nonfree replaces parts of tetex-doc, however,
> tetex-doc-nonfree just Replaces: tetex-doc (<= 3.0-14) So I assume the
> deal was to remove the questionable files from tetex-doc 3.0-15.

Correct.

> I also know the bug would be better suited against tetex-doc 3.0-15,
> however, unfortunately, tetex-doc 3.0-15 is upgradable from 3.0-14 with
> tetex-doc-nonfree 1.0-1 present. I don't know why this is (perhaps some
> bug in dpkg?), but the other way around (installing tetex-doc-nonfree
> 1.0-1 while tetex-doc 3.0-15 is present) fails as shown above, so I file
> the bug against tetex-doc-nonfree.

I'll investigate this, but the faster way to fix is to just bump the
version in tetex-doc-nonfree's Replaces line.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)