Bug#382894: marked as done (tzdata breaks locale package)

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and subject line Bug#382894: tzdata breaks locale package
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• To: submit@bugs.debian.org
• Subject: tzdata breaks locale package
• From: "Lito P. Cruz" <Rosalito.Cruz@infotech.monash.edu.au>
• Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:33:24 +1000
• Message-id: <[🔎] 44DFD2E4.4060502@csse.monash.edu.au>
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Package: tzdata
Version: 2006g-2

Trying to install this package but it breaks due to locales package colliding

Here is the report of the error...

Thanks,

Lito

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dpkg -i '///home/lito/Desktop/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
Selecting previously deselected package tzdata.
(Reading database ... 94315 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tzdata (from .../Desktop/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing ///home/lito/Desktop/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Algiers', which is also in package locales

dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
///home/lito/Desktop/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb
RESULT=1

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• To: "Lito P. Cruz" <Rosalito.Cruz@infotech.monash.edu.au>, 382894-done@bugs.debian.org
• Subject: Re: Bug#382894: tzdata breaks locale package
• From: Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
• Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:46:16 +0200
• Message-id: <20060814084616.GA5044@linuxfr.org>
• In-reply-to: <[🔎] 44DFD2E4.4060502@csse.monash.edu.au>
• References: <44DFC1BC.7040207@csse.monash.edu.au> <[🔎] 44DFD2E4.4060502@csse.monash.edu.au>

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:33:24AM +1000, Lito P. Cruz wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2006g-2
> 
> 
> >Trying to install this package but it breaks due to locales package 
> >colliding
> >Here is the report of the error...
> >
> >dpkg -i '///home/lito/Desktop/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
> >Selecting previously deselected package tzdata.
> >(Reading database ... 94315 files and directories currently installed.)
> >Unpacking tzdata (from .../Desktop/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb) ...
> >dpkg: error processing ///home/lito/Desktop/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb 
> >(--install):
> >trying to overwrite `/usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Algiers', which is 
> >also in package locales
> >dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> >Errors were encountered while processing:
> >///home/lito/Desktop/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb
> >RESULT=1

Hi,

the Debian locales package does not ship timezone files, so yours
come from another system.  I am thus closing this bug.
Thanks for your report.

Denis

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