Re: [Evolution] new Evolution for Debian: conflicts between libpisock3 and libpisock4

[Jim Bowen <jbowen speakeasy net>]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 04:35, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:

> In the case of Evolution, it depends on both libpisock3 and libpisock4 (both are
> issued by Ximian, as far as the filename tells), which apparently contain the
> same file, creating a conflict:
>
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libpisock3_0.9.5-0pre3-ximian.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libpisock.la', which is also in package
> libpisock4

I looked on my system (which I too just upgraded w/o major issue) and
noticed that the version of libpisock3 on my system
(0.9.5-0pre3-ximian.1) does not have libpisock.la but the same version
number .deb taken from red-carpet.ximian.com today does. It appears that
libpisock3 was changed w/o incrementing the version.

Here's what I saw:

$ dpkg -l 'libpisock*'
<snip>
ii  libpisock3   0.9.5-0pre3-ximian.1   ...
ii  libpisock4   0.9.5-ximian.1         ...

OK, I have both installed and they are the current versions. I then
check the files in each

$dpkg -L libpisock3
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libpisock.so.3.0.1
/usr/lib/libpisock.so
/usr/lib/libpisock.so.3
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libpisock3
/usr/share/doc/libpisock3/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libpisock3/changelog.Debian.gz

$ dpkg -L libpisock4
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libpisock.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib/libpisock.la
/usr/lib/libpisock.so.4
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libpisock4
/usr/share/doc/libpisock4/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libpisock4/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libpisock4/changelog.Debian.gz

OK no file conflict. But then I download the current debs from ximian
(which are the same revision as what is installed on my machine) and
looking at them yields:

$ dpkg --contents libpisock3_0.9.5-0pre3-ximian.1_i386.deb | cut -c 52-
./
./usr/
./usr/lib/
./usr/lib/libpisock.so.3.0.1
./usr/lib/libpisock.la
./usr/lib/libpisock.so -> libpisock.so.3.0.1
./usr/lib/libpisock.so.3 -> libpisock.so.3.0.1
./usr/share/
./usr/share/doc/
./usr/share/doc/libpisock3/
./usr/share/doc/libpisock3/copyright
./usr/share/doc/libpisock3/changelog.Debian.gz

$ dpkg --contents libpisock4_0.9.5-ximian.1_i386.deb | cut -c 52-
./
./usr/
./usr/lib/
./usr/lib/libpisock.so.4.0.0
./usr/lib/libpisock.la
./usr/lib/libpisock.so.4 -> libpisock.so.4.0.0
./usr/share/
./usr/share/doc/
./usr/share/doc/libpisock4/
./usr/share/doc/libpisock4/copyright
./usr/share/doc/libpisock4/changelog.gz
./usr/share/doc/libpisock4/changelog.Debian.gz

Now there is a conflict ... but just as important there is a discrepancy
between the two identically versioned lipisock3's.

> There are also several conflicts between gnome-core and many other packages,
> where the man pages or some other files are duplicated.

Haven't seen anything of the sort here other than some dependency mojo
that was affecting libgnome-vfs0 that made me hold rather than upgrade
the package. Some additional info may be helpful.
 
> Fixed packages would be appreciated.  Thanks.

You may want to file a bug on this in case the right eyes at ximian
don't see your mailing list post.

Jim