Re: Bug#752048: funny-manpages and lintian: error when trying to install together
Control: reassign -1 funny-manpages 1.3-5
Control: forcemerge 269703 -1
Dear Ralf,
Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Package: lintian,funny-manpages
[...]
> automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
> same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
> detected the following problem:
[...]
> Unpacking lintian (2.5.23.1) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/lintian_2.5.23.1_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/lintian/overrides/lintian', which is also in package funny-manpages 1.3-5
[...]
> This bug has been filed against both packages. If you, the maintainers of
> the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
> resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may then
> also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug.
It's obvious that this issue is _not_ a bug in lintian but solely a
bug in funny-manpages. Besides, it was already reported 10 years ago
with severity minor (but set to serious after it caused a file
conflict).
Merging accordingly.
Regards, Axel
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