[Bug 1267680] Re: package gdb-arm-none-eabi (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gdb.1.gz', which is also in package gdb 7.6.50.20131218-0ubuntu1

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

I looked a bit into this issue, and the good news is that I cannot
reproduce this error with version 6 on Ubuntu 14.10. (As a side note,
I'm not quite sure why the version number is a single digit,
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdb-arm-none-eabi, presumably the
prefix is added by whatever gdb version is used?)

Looking at the list of files installed, we can see that man1/gdb.1.gz is indeed no longer installed:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/gdb-arm-none-eabi/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/amd64/gdb-arm-none-eabi/filelist

Since the issue is fixed in a newer release, there will be a patch which can take care of it. It probably be feasible to get the fix for this from the version in 14.10 and add it to/release it for 14.04 as well as an SRU (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for details.). Looking at the changes for this package at http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/gdb-arm-none-eabi.git/log/, I have to admit I don't know whether
"Remove empty manuals and fix installman target for arm-none-eabi-run" would be suffecient, or if 
"Workaround for upstream manpages stripped" needs to be included as well. These are the only two changes which mention manpages, and the rest appear unrelated, but for a developer preparing an SRU it would be nice to know whether only one or both are needed. Does someone know? :)

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Title:
  package gdb-arm-none-eabi (not installed) failed to install/upgrade:
  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gdb.1.gz', which is also in
  package gdb 7.6.50.20131218-0ubuntu1

Status in gdb package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gdb-arm-none-eabi package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Was makin sure every thing worked and install properly for ya peeps
  from Synaptic Package Manager and found a few errors in the process
  got 2 uploaded along with this report also uploaded info to the "error
  tracker" which is named:

  077cac62-1be5-11e3-88e6-e4115b0f8a4a

  which is what i also got while installing hope this helps ya =) peace

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gdb-arm-none-eabi (not installed)
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-999-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jan  9 21:39:21 2014
  DuplicateSignature: package:gdb-arm-none-eabi:(not installed):trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gdb.1.gz', which is also in package gdb 7.6.50.20131218-0ubuntu1
  ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gdb.1.gz', which is also in package gdb 7.6.50.20131218-0ubuntu1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-10 (30 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131209)
  SourcePackage: gdb-arm-none-eabi
  Title: package gdb-arm-none-eabi (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/gdb.1.gz', which is also in package gdb 7.6.50.20131218-0ubuntu1
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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