mercury-hlctrail-dev has some conflicts with mercury-hlcpar-dev

[NadiaYvette]

$ sudo apt-get -fu install sudo apt-cache showsrc mercury|grep '^ mercury'|awk '{print $1}' Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done mercury-devel is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-docs is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-examples is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-gc is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-gc-dev is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-hlc is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-hlc-dev is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-hlcpar is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-hlcpar-dev is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-hlctrail is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-llc is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-llc-dev is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-llcpar is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-llcpar-dev is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-llctrail is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-llctrail-dev is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-maintainers is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-recommended is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). mercury-tools is already the newest version (14.01.1-3). The following NEW packages will be installed: mercury-hlctrail-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,767 kB of archives. After this operation, 18.5 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 277361 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mercury-hlctrail-dev (14.01.1-3) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/mercury/modules/hlc.par.gc/mer_browser.init', which is also in package mercury-hlcpar-dev 14.01.1-3 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) $ sudo apt-get -fu --force-overwrite mercury-hlctrail-dev E: Command line option 'f' [from -fu] is not understood in combination with the other options. $ sudo apt-get -fu --force-overwrite install mercury-hlctrail-dev E: Command line option --force-overwrite is not understood in combination with the other options $ sudo apt-get --force-overwrite install mercury-hlctrail-dev
E: Command line option --force-overwrite is not understood in combination with the other options $ sudo apt-get --download-only install mercury-hlctrail-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: mercury-hlctrail-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,767 kB of archives. After this operation, 18.5 MB of additional disk space will be used. Download complete and in download only mode $ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 277361 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mercury-hlctrail-dev (14.01.1-3) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/mercury/modules/hlc.par.gc/mer_browser.init', which is also in package mercury-hlcpar-dev 14.01.1-3 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 277361 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mercury-hlctrail-dev_14.01.1-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mercury-hlctrail-dev (14.01.1-3) ... dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/mercury/modules/hlc.par.gc/mer_browser.init', which is also in package mercury-hlcpar-dev 14.01.1-3 dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/mercury/modules/hlc.par.gc/mer_mdbcomp.init', which is also in package mercury-hlcpar-dev 14.01.1-3 dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/mercury/modules/hlc.par.gc/mer_rt.init', which is also in package mercury-hlcpar-dev 14.01.1-3 dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/mercury/modules/hlc.par.gc/mer_ssdb.init', which is also in package mercury-hlcpar-dev 14.01.1-3 dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/mercury/modules/hlc.par.gc/mer_std.init', which is also in package mercury-hlcpar-dev 14.01.1-3 Setting up mercury-hlctrail-dev (14.01.1-3) ... $

[PaulBone]

Thanks. I'll fix that in the next version, Looks like I've got a typo somewhere so it should be a simple fix.

[PaulBone]

I've fixed the issue and I'm building new packages now. Packages for 14.01.1-4 built for stretch are already online. Thanks for reporting this @NadiaYvette