Subject: Bug#653667: trying to overwrite '/etc/debbugs/html/server-control.html.in', which is also in package debbugs 2.4.1

From: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:09:49 +0100

Package: debbugs-web
Version: 2.4.2~exp1

I am getting dpkg conflicts when trying to install debbugs-local:

$ sudo apt-get install debbugs-local
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  debbugs-web
Suggested packages:
  libcgi-alert-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  debbugs-local debbugs-web
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 948 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/78,0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 344 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously unselected package debbugs-web.
(Reading database ... 394820 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking debbugs-web (from .../debbugs-web_2.4.2~exp1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debbugs-web_2.4.2~exp1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/debbugs/html/server-control.html.in', which is also in package debbugs 2.4.1
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Selecting previously unselected package debbugs-local.
Unpacking debbugs-local (from .../debbugs-local_2.4.2~exp1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/debbugs-web_2.4.2~exp1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Regards!

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Igalia - Free Software Engineering                http://www.igalia.com
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