Bug#516711: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/timeout', which is also in package coreutils

Subject: Bug#516711: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/timeout', which is also in package coreutils
From: mika@grml.org (Michael Prokop)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:32:38 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 2009-02-23T10-31-10@devnull.michael-prokop.at>

Package: timeout
Version: 1.18-2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.6


[...]
Unpacking timeout (from .../timeout_1.18-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/timeout_1.18-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/timeout', which is also in package
 coreutils
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/timeout_1.18-2_i386.deb
[...]

JFTR: it's coreutils 7.1-1

regards,
-mika-

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