Ubuntu
dictionaries-common package

dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common'

Bug #322448 reported by Carl Karsten
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dictionaries-common (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: dictionaries-common

carl@dv67:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
....

Preparing to replace dictionaries-common 0.98.13ubuntu1 (using .../dictionaries-common_0.98.14ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/dict/words to /usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common by dictionaries-common'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common' with
  different file `/usr/share/dict/words', not allowed
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dictionaries-common_0.98.14ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2

carl@dv67:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

carl@dv67:~$ apt-cache policy dictionaries-common
dictionaries-common:
  Installed: 0.98.13ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.98.14ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.98.14ubuntu1 0
        500 http://cp333 jaunty/main Packages
 *** 0.98.13ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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bjo (bjo81) wrote :

also affects
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

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bjo (bjo81) wrote :

fixed by deleting and installing package.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in dictionaries-common (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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eraserix (eraserix) wrote :

This bug happens to me on a rather minimalistic precise install (lxc-create).

Looking at the preinst script of dictionaries-common suggests that the bug is still there in trusty. If the package wamerican is not installed, the divert will break, because there is nothing to divert.

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