On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:51:03 +0000 owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org: > > > reassign 514921 libmimedir0,libmimedir-gnome0-dev > Bug#514921: libmimedir0: tries to overwrite file owned by libmimedir-gnome0-dev > Bug reassigned from package `libmimedir0' to `libmimedir0,libmimedir-gnome0-dev'. > Barry, your upload of libmimedir 0.5.1-1 introduced the relevant file into libmimedir0 when it does not exist in Lenny: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/amd64/libmimedir0/filelist /usr/lib/libmimedir.so.0 /usr/lib/libmimedir.so.0.0.0 /usr/share/doc/libmimedir0/README /usr/share/doc/libmimedir0/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libmimedir0/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libmimedir0/copyright http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libmimedir0/filelist /usr/lib/libmimedir.a /usr/lib/libmimedir.so.0 /usr/lib/libmimedir.so.0.0.0 /usr/share/doc/libmimedir0/README /usr/share/doc/libmimedir0/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libmimedir0/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libmimedir0/copyright Why was this file introduced? I don't see that this is a bug in libmimedir-gnome0-dev, it appears to be a bug in libmimedir0, specifically libmimedir0 (0.5.1-1) - there's nothing I can see in the changelog to explain this addition. There should be no .a file in the library package and there wasn't one in the -dev in Lenny either (for whatever reason). Now, whether libmimedir-gnome0-dev should contain /usr/lib/libmimedir.a and not something like /usr/lib/libmimedir-gnome.a is a different question. Moray? IMHO it's far less troublesome for the two -dev packages to conflict. $ apt-cache rdepends libmimedir0 libmimedir0 Reverse Depends: python-rra librra0 librra-tools libmimedir-dev $ apt-cache rdepends libmimedir-gnome0.4 libmimedir-gnome0.4 Reverse Depends: libmimedir-gnome0-dev libgpevtype1 gpe-contacts gpe-calendar gpe-bluetooth The only extra dependency of the -gnome version is libglib2.0-0 - python-rra already depends on libglib2.0-0 via a dependency on libdbus-glib, in turn via http://packages.debian.org/sid/libsynce0, and http://packages.debian.org/sid/librra0 also depends on libsynce0. Maybe the best thing would be: 1. Remove /usr/lib/libmimedir.a from libmimedir0 asap. 2. Migrate librra0 and reverse dependencies to libmimedir-gnome0.4 after Lenny 3. Remove the orphaned libmimedir0 Doing that means that the "problem" of /usr/lib/libmimedir.a in libmimedir-gnome0-dev goes away completely. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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