[gutsy] second dpkg error in one day

[Brad Johnson]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 20:22 -0500, Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> and second, is there anything the devs can do to avoid this?  why
> would a lib file's credits or readme be overwritten by the main
> package?

You need to realize that new files are always being uploaded to the
Gutsy repositories. Sometimes, a new version of FileA is uploaded that
requires a newer version of FileB but that hasn't yet been uploaded to
the repositories. This will cause the install of FileA to error due to a
dependency issue (just like the gimp package). You should *NOT* force
install these packages. Rather you should just wait for FileB to become
available in the repositories and FileA will install fine at that point.

Brad