[Bug 1616689] Re: apt-config-auto-update and update-notifier-common can't be co-installed

[Steve Langasek]

update-notifier-common has shipped /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic in
every Ubuntu flavor image we produce, and has been since at least 12.04.
pk-update-icon was introduced some time post-14.04.  This needs to be
fixed in that package to not ship this file.

Conflicts is a wrong solution, because these should not be two alternate
implementations of  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic in Ubuntu.

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  apt-config-auto-update and update-notifier-common can't be co-
  installed

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in pk-update-icon package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  apt-config-auto-update and update-notifier-common can't be installed
  together, because they both ship the file
  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic, but neither package declares a
  Conflicts-relationship. This results in:

  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-config-auto-update_2.0.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic', which is also in package update-notifier-common 3.168.1

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