Bug#117042: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update2)

[Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>]

Package: balsa
Version: 0.9.8-1.0.pre5-1
Severity: important

(also seems to apply to 1.2.1-1)

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:10:02AM -0700, D. wrote:
> Preparing to replace balsa 0.6.0-1.1. using
> ...(balsa-0.9.8-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb
> unpacking replacement balsa
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/balsa-0.9.8-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb--unpack):
> trying to overwrite
> '/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-balsa2.png' Which is also in
> package gnome-panel-data. 

Ah, this looks like a bug in balsa. It needs to replace some earlier
version of gnome-panel-data, although unfortunately I can't quite tell
which.

>   When I did the apt-get -u upgrade I also got the
> same type of error message for eeyes. I made a
> assumption, I know bad thing, and did a apt-get
> install gnome-panel-data.  This installed and the
> installation continued without any errors.

Yes, that would work.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]