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For example, imagine we have two packages: banana.deb and banana-common.deb. Inside banana.deb, we have some file banana.data, that is quite big and changes rarely. Both packages are currently at version 0.0.1, and banana depends on banana-common.

Now, because we want to reduce banana.deb size, we want to move that banana.data file into banana-common package. If I just do that (updating both versions to 0.0.2 and try to install with dpkg -i, I see the following:

$ sudo dpkg -i banana-common.deb banana.deb
...
dpkg: error processing banana-common.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/local/banana/banana.data', which is also in package banana 0.0.1

How can I fix it without removing the package first?

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In debian/control add something like

Conflicts: banana (< 0.0.2)

to the package section for banana-common.

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And that would force dpkg to install them in parallel? – Rogach Feb 20 at 5:04
Man pages say something like "The package maintenance software will not allow conflicting packages to be installed at the same time". Wouldn't it just fail the installation? – Rogach Feb 20 at 5:08
It makes banana-common 0.0.2 to conflict with banana 0.0.1 but not banana 0.0.2. That makes the package manager first upgrades banana before it upgrades banana-common – Florian Diesch Feb 20 at 5:15
But new banana will be dependent on 0.0.2 version of banana-common, so it can't be upgraded, either. – Rogach Feb 20 at 5:16
sudo dpkg -i banana-common.deb banana.deb or apt-get upgrade will upgrade both in right order. – Florian Diesch Feb 20 at 5:21

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