Re: Bug#27223: tetex-base: tetex-base conflicts with bibtool

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Hi,

e2od5@tower.physik.uni-halle.de writes:
 >  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/texmf/doc', which is also in package bibtool

I can't see, why dpkg is reporting this, because in both cases this is
a directory, and dpkg should not warn on overwriting directories.

 > Speicherzugriffsfehler (core dumped)
 > ^------- that means SIGSEGV, in case somebody can't cope with German messages
 > 
 > Despite the fact, that there is an inconsistency between tetex-base and
 > bibtool I'm not sure if it is a serious bug in dpkg, because a SIGSEGV
 > shouldn't occure in the described case.  Please decide yourself how to
 > foreward this problem.

This all, seams to be a dpkg problem.

Christoph