Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] communication uninstallable

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

* Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojsbug@gmail.com> [2009-06-04 17:14]:

> Hey, I just tried to install the communication package to see if there
> was something behind that lintian warning. Well, I couldn't since the
> comm package that my mirror holds (is.debian.org, but version 1.0.9-1
> of the package) holds all the .m files so the install fails with:
> 
> Unpacking octave-communications (from .../octave-communications_1.0.9-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/octave-communications_1.0.9-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite /usr/share/octave/packages/3.0/communications-1.0.9/randintrlv.m',
> which is also in package octave-communications-common
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

I think we need Conflicts here.  I will take a look at this.

Thanks,

-- 
Rafael