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pth package

libc6-dev conflicts with libpthread-dev

Bug #69585 reported by Justin Dugger on 2006-10-31

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pth (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #379413
	pth (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

While tracking down a strange error with /usr/include/pthread.h:485 (tinyOS is insane, don't ask), I figured I'd see if libpthread-dev would have a fixed version. Trying to install it fails,

jldugger@jldugger-tablet:~$ sudo apt-get install libpthread-dev
Reading package lists... Done
<snip>
Unpacking libpthread-dev (from .../libpthread-dev_2.0.7-2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libpthread-dev_2.0.7-2ubuntu2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/include/pthread.h', which is also in package libc6-dev
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpthread-dev_2.0.7-2ubuntu2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is this expected behavior? I don't know whether this is a bug in pth or in glibc, so please re-assign as appropriate.

Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen) on 2006-11-01

Changed in pth:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-11-01

Changed in pth:
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen) wrote on 2007-01-12:

Thanks for the bug report.

I'm closing this bug because it has been fixed in Feisty.

pth (2.0.7-3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
   * Added divertion for /usr/lib/libpthread.a in libpthread-dev
     (Closes: #379413).
   * Renamed libpth2 to libpth20 and libpthread2 to libpthread20 to match the
     soname.
   * Removed lintian overrides.
   * Bumped shlibs.
   * Added libpthread20 as depends to pth-dbg.

Changed in pth:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Ketil Malde (ketil-ii) wrote on 2007-03-31:

I'm sorry, but this still affects Edgy, and Feisty is not out yet!

% sudo apt-get install libpthread-dev
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libpthread20
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpthread-dev libpthread20
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 205kB of archives.
After unpacking 520kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main libpthread20 2.0.7-2ubuntu2 [79,5kB]
Get:2 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main libpthread-dev 2.0.7-2ubuntu2 [126kB]
Fetched 205kB in 0s (242kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libpthread20.
(Reading database ... 115437 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libpthread20 (from .../libpthread20_2.0.7-2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libpthread-dev.
Unpacking libpthread-dev (from .../libpthread-dev_2.0.7-2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libpthread-dev_2.0.7-2ubuntu2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/include/pthread.h', which is also in package libc6-dev
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpthread-dev_2.0.7-2ubuntu2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)