[Bug 16175] Installation fails: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/sgml/gconf/gconf-1.0.dtd', which is also in package gconf2

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------- Additional Comments From debzilla at ubuntu.com  2005-09-24 01:01 UTC -------
Message-ID: <20050923232908.GK10397 at asteria.noreply.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:29:08 +0200
From: Peter Palfrader <weasel at debian.org>
To: Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam at gmx.net>
Cc: 329832 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#329832: this is grave

Daniel Leidert schrieb am Samstag, dem 24. September 2005:

> Am Freitag, den 23.09.2005, 22:19 +0200 schrieb Peter Palfrader:
> 
> [severity set to grave]
> 
> Why this was set to grave? 'apt-get install -f' runs fine after getting
> the mentioned error message. There was only a file moved from one to
> another package, but the package, which now contains the file was
> unpacked/replaced first, which must result in an error. How do you want
> to avoid such a "problem"?

The usualy solution is to declare a proper replaces in the package which
now contains the used file.

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