[gutsy] second dpkg error in one day

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On 10/5/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> aiui, these things generally happen because a file is being moved from one
> package to another.  The only way to prevent that is to update both
> packages at exactly the same time.  Because of the nature of mirroring, I
> shouldn't think it's possible to guarantee that that happens on the mirrors
> even if the developer could guarantee it on the initial site.  It's just
> something you have to put up with if you use not-yet-released versions.

That would make sense, but the file in question in both cases were
files that existed in the lib* package's file tree, and the main
package was trying to overwrite it.  gimp-2.4 was trying to overwrite
something in libgimp directory, and cupsys was trying to overwrite
something in libcupsys.

But even given that there was good reason for this, provided that two
packages were submitted at the same time to the repositories, wouldn't
the mirrors replicate *both* packages and mitigate the conflict?