Re: debconf failing with perl_5.6.1 [was: Re: Installation of perl-base_5.6.1-2 fails]
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:35:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-listchanges_1.49_all.deb
> > (--unpack): trying to overwrite directory `/usr/share/locale/gl' in package
> > mutt with nondirectory
>
> As should that. Is this similar to the problem with perl the other day with
> dpkg warning it replaced a file with a directory or something? IIRC, perl's
> maintainer thought it was a dpkg bug.
It may also have something to do with apt-localepurge, which Paul is using.
Otherwise, it's quite the coincidence that this happened with the locale
files in particular.
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- mdz
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