packaging conflict with bat (batcat)

[KennethNielsen]

Dear hexyl authors

I'm on Ubuntu and wanted to test out this tool, which looks really cool, but when I try to install it via apt I get the following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hexyl
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 254 kB of archives.
After this operation, 697 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 hexyl amd64 0.6.0-2build1 [254 kB]
Fetched 254 kB in 0s (1,274 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package hexyl.
(Reading database ... 275097 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../hexyl_0.6.0-2build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking hexyl (0.6.0-2build1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/hexyl_0.6.0-2build1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/.crates2.json', which is also in package bat 0.12.1-1build1
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/hexyl_0.6.0-2build1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

As you can see, it seems that your package wants to create a generally named named file /usr/.crates2.json, which is also present in the bat (batcat) package. I suspect this is an artifact of both being written in and built from rust.

I will create a similar issue on bat (batcat) and cross link them.

Thanks for the tool and any help you may be able to provide.

[KennethNielsen]

The corresponding bat issue is https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/2021

[sharkdp]

see #146