FS#51733 - [ttf-dejavu] Package upgrade fails

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Thilo-Alexander Ginkel (thilo.ginkel) - Monday, 07 November 2016, 15:49 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 07 November 2016, 15:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Attempting to upgrade ttf-dejavu causes the following error log and the package upgrade fails:

$ sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) ttf-dejavu-2.37-1

Total Installed Size: 9.75 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.57 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf exists in filesystem
ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf exists in filesystem
ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf exists in filesystem
ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf exists in filesystem
ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans.conf exists in filesystem
ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-serif.conf exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Current package version:

$ pacman -Q ttf-dejavu
ttf-dejavu 2.35-1
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Monday, 07 November 2016, 15:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Read the news on the front page
Comment by David Thurstenson (thurstylark) - Monday, 07 November 2016, 15:57 GMT
This issue and it's fix was covered on the news on the front page of https://archlinux.org/ Please follow the instructions there.

Also, for future reference, please read the news regularly either on the website, through the RSS feed, or by subscribing to the arch-announce mailing list to avoid a problem like this in the future.

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