python-sugar-0.88 overwrites files in sugar-base [was: Re: Quality Assurance for the PPA]

[Grant Bowman]

Hello Luke,

Thanks for your suggestions.  I ended up removing all sugar packages
for now so that I could run updates and install other packages again.
Those conflicting files left dpkg & apt-get in a bad state.  Let me
know when it's safe to test 10.04 with the ppa again and I'll be happy
to try it out. I suspect 10.04 LTS support is something that others
need as well.

Grant Bowman
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
> On 10/28/2010 01:58 PM, Grant Bowman wrote:
>> It's best to walk before you run.  Do these two pastbin data help
>> debug the ppa issue?
>>
>> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/520539/
>
> The issue is on line 122 and 123:
> | dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/python-sugar-0.88_0.88.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
> (--install):
> |  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/pyshared/sugar/__init__.py', which is
> also in package sugar-base 0:0.88.0-1~ppa1
>
> That's because at some point the PPA included a "sugar-base" package.
> The immediate fix is for somebody to reupload python-sugar-0.88 and have
> it "Conflict:" and "Replaces:" sugar-base.
>
>> I am on 10.04.1 and tried to use the PPA to install per the
>> instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar  My machine right now is
>> in a state where I can not install anything else until it is fixed.
>
> sugar-base is not in the PPA, so *new* installs should be okay.
>
>> Can someone please update the instructions on
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar ?
>
> We probably should mention that 10.04 is currently unsupported and to
> use the official packages in Maverick or wait for Lucid packages to
> stabilize.
>
>> Should I file a bug against
>> python-sugar-0.88 or sugar-base version 0.88?  If it's in the PPA, can
>> I file a bug against it?
>
> Bugs in PPA packages should be filed against "usr" in Launchpad,
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/usr>.
>
>> How can I fix my machine, remove the
>> /usr/share/pyshared/sugar/__init__.py files?
>
> Does `sudo apt-get remove -f sugar-base` resolve your problem?
>
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