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Re: Help needed with libpaperg_1.0.3-10



Jason I have CCd you because this is what caused the apt/dpkg problem
I mailed you about. Perhaps you can experiment.

On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:10:05PM +0200, Marco Pistore wrote:
> a pair of days ago i have uploaded a new version of libpaper and
> libpaperg (version 1.0.3-10), to close a release critical bug:
> in the preinst of libpaperg i have added two diversions, since
> both libpaper and libpaperg contain the files
> /usr/sbin/paperconfig and /usr/bin/paperconf.
> 
> Unfortunately, something is not working and i have received three bug
> reports: there are problems when upgrading from libpaperg_1.0.3-9
> to libpaperg_1.0.3-10: this is the more interesting (bug#23644):

> > dpkg: error processing libpaperg_1.0.3-10.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/paperconf', which is the diverted version
> > of `¼Z¨^ɸ×' (package:libpaperg)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  libpaperg_1.0.3-10.deb
> > E: Sub-process returned an error code

I did not see the garbage but I did get the dpkg abort.
I did not file a bug report because I was not sure which package
was at fault, but libpaperg was the last package looked at before
dpkg terminated.

Hamish
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