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git-core package

git-core fails to install

Bug #164167 reported by Justin Dugger
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git-core (Debian)
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git-core (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: git-core

In hardy, git-core fails to install:
jldugger@jldugger-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install git-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdigest-sha1-perl liberror-perl
Suggested packages:
  git-arch git-cvs git-svn git-email git-daemon-run git-gui gitk gitweb
Recommended packages:
  git-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  git-core libdigest-sha1-perl liberror-perl
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 40.2kB/4059kB of archives.
After unpacking 8720kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main liberror-perl 0.15-8 [15.5kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2 [24.7kB]
Fetched 40.2kB in 0s (54.0kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package liberror-perl.
(Reading database ... 199044 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking liberror-perl (from .../liberror-perl_0.15-8_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libdigest-sha1-perl.
Unpacking libdigest-sha1-perl (from .../libdigest-sha1-perl_2.11-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking git-core (from .../git-core_1%3a1.5.3.6-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/git-core_1%3a1.5.3.6-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/perl5/Error.pm', which is also in package liberror-perl
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/git-core_1%3a1.5.3.6-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Why is git-core providing a module it already depends on?

Revision history for this message
Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) wrote :

confirmed.

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in git-core:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Kow (kow) wrote :

Problem is with source tarball. Debian has rules to delete Error.pm and the man page for it (git includes this because Perl doesnt). liberror-perl is a dependency for git-core. Now back to the problem, it appears the permissions are wrong in the source tarball so the rules script does not have correct permissions to delete the files. I recommend patching the Makefiles to remove these. One of the relevant makefiles is <src package dir>/Perl/Makefile. Now I think there is a man page too that needs to be removed but I haven't looked at that.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in git-core:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote :

Fixed in 1:1.5.3.6-1.1.

Changed in git-core:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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