Bug#753165: lintian needs "Provides: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-5.1)"
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.24
Severity: serious
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Unpacking lintian (2.5.24) over (2.5.21) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/lintian_2.5.24_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/lintian/overrides/lintian', which is also in package funny-manpages 1.3-5
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
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This was a bug in funny-manpages, but lintian has to add a
"Provides: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-5.1)" to avoid users running
into it when upgrading lintian.
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