Contractor cannot upgrade

Bug #1019799 reported by Paco Patag
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Contractor
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Pantheon Wallpaper
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
elementary OS
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When trying to upgrade, Synaptic gives this output:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/contractor_0.2-0~r14+pkg4~precise1_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/contractor/wallpaper.contract', which is also in package pantheon-wallpaper 0.2-0~r30+pkg7~precise1

Description: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Release: 13

contractor:
  Installed: 0.2-0~r12+pkg4~precise1
  Candidate: 0.2-0~r14+pkg4~precise1
  Version table:
     0.2-0~r14+pkg4~precise1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/daily/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
 *** 0.2-0~r12+pkg4~precise1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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xapantu (xapantu) wrote :

You have to uninstall pantheon-wallpaper, it isn't supported for this cycle, so I put the contract in the contractor package ;)

Changed in contractor:
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Still, packages should not collide like that. Please add Conflicts: pantheon-wallpaper to packaging or (better) rename the contract shipped with pantheon-wallpaper.

Revision history for this message
Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote :

Renamed the contract to pantheon-wallpaper.contract and the displayed name to "Wallpaper old" to avoid confusion.

Changed in pantheon-wallpaper:
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Invalid
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-wallpaper:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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