GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 724080
Conflict with Ubuntu's shotwell-common package
Last modified: 2014-11-14 03:39:46 UTC
It appears that in Saucy Ubuntu broke out Shotwell into two packages, shotwell and shotwell-common (on top of the debug symbols package). The shotwell-common package holds all our icons, Glade files, resources, help pages, and more. However, when upgrading from our PPA to Ubuntu's, the user gets a cryptic warning about overwriting a file created by a separate package: http://askubuntu.com/questions/405862/trying-to-overwrite-file-already-in-shotwell-common-package-while-installing-s We need to either fix or work around this problem.
I don't think I'm going to have time to do this. Ultimately I think the fix is for us to mimic Ubuntu's packaging names. However, that alone won't fix people using Yorba's PPA today.
This is tracked on Launchpad at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1270251
*** Bug 733913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Package "shotwell" in Yorba's regular PPA and Daily Build PPA are now marked as Conflicts/Replaces Ubuntu's shotwell-common. Pushed to master, commit efc9fb and 6817a7