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[Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Additionally, both libdbmdeep-perl and libdbm-deep-perl contain
'/usr/share/perl5/DBM/Deep.pm' and
'/usr/share/man/man3/DBM::Deep.3pm.gz':

http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/all/libdbmdeep-perl/filelist
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/all/libdbm-deep-perl/filelist

The packages are duplicates--the latter is an upgraded version of the
former--and they should at the very least have a conflict (a 'Replaces:'
field?) to prevent the following from happening.

# dpkg -i libdbm-deep-perl_1.0014-1_all.deb 
Selecting previously deselected package libdbm-deep-perl.
(Reading database ... 236572 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libdbm-deep-perl (from libdbm-deep-perl_1.0014-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing libdbm-deep-perl_1.0014-1_all.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man3/DBM::Deep.3pm.gz', which is also in package libdbmdeep-perl
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libdbm-deep-perl_1.0014-1_all.deb

libdbmdeep-perl isn't in Debian any more, and doesn't conform to the
naming convention for Perl packages; it should be removed from the
repositories to avoid confusion.

** Summary changed:

- Package is very, very out of date.
+ libdbmdeep-perl is obsolete, and should be replaced by libdbm-deep-perl.

-- 
libdbmdeep-perl is obsolete, and should be replaced by libdbm-deep-perl.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338406
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