Wrong Replaces on devscripts

Bug #138953 reported by Michael Bienia
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

I've tried to install ubuntu-dev-tools but dpkg reports a file conflict as the Replaces/Conflicts is wrong:
Replaces: devscripts (<< 2.10.7ubuntu3)
Conflicts: devscripts (<< 2.10.7ubuntu3)

$ dpkg -l devscripts
[...]
ii devscripts 2.10.7ubuntu4 Scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easi

$dpkg -L devscripts
[...]
/usr/bin/requestsync

Unpacking ubuntu-dev-tools (from .../ubuntu-dev-tools_0.5_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-dev-tools_0.5_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/requestsync', which is also in package devscripts
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-dev-tools_0.5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Revision history for this message
Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Me too.

Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Michael Bienia (geser) wrote :

Fixed in ubuntu-dev-tools 0.6.

Changed in ubuntu-dev-tools:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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