Re: Installing Dpkg-devel
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 09:35:31PM -0500, BrokenBytes wrote:
>
> When I try to install the dpkg-dev packages to run make-kpkg I get the
> following error:
>
> gnome# dpkg -i dpkg-dev_1.4.0.22.deb
> (Reading database ... 18925 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking dpkg-dev (from dpkg-dev_1.4.0.22.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing dpkg-dev_1.4.0.22.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/index.html', which is
> also in
> package dpkg
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> dpkg-dev_1.4.0.22.deb
It's a bug in dpkg-dev. It should have the header:
"Replaces: dpkg (<= 1.4.0.21)".
Should I submit a bug requesting it?
BTW: someone should do a dpkg release for frozen soon, correcting at
least this bug and removing the packaging manual. Is anyone working
on it? If not, I may do another NMU...
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Juan Cespedes
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