lxqt-panel: d-u fails due to lxqt-panel_2.3.2-1_amd64.deb

[michaa7]

Vorbereitung zum Entpacken von .../lxqt-panel_2.3.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Entpacken von lxqt-panel (2.3.2-1) über (2.2.2-1+b1) ...
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Archivs /var/cache/apt/archives/lxqt-panel_2.3.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
Versuch, »/etc/xdg/lxqt/panel.conf« zu überschreiben, welches auch in Paket lxqt-branding-debian (0.14.0.7) ist
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
/var/cache/apt/archives/lxqt-panel_2.3.2-1_amd64.deb
needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed
Fehler: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Bugreport is out.

[eriefisher]

Should be something like

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dpkg -i lxqt-panel....... --force-overwrite

[michaa7]

I don't like "something like"-solutions.

But *keeping* the current (lxqt-panel=2.2.2-1+b1), not the not-to-be-successfully-installed version (lxqt-panel=2.3.2-1) by issuing

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apt install --reinstall lxqt-panel=2.2.2-1+b1 let the d-u finish successfully. Then I marked lxqt-panel as *hold* (until there is a new, fixed package).

[eriefisher]

The problem is you have two packages trying to write the same file. You could just rename one of them then the package should install. For me I would rename the one from lxqt-branding-debian.

[michaa7]

First, lxqt is not my primary DE. So I just wait until the maintainers get it right.

Second, I doubt your solution is a workaround. How renaming a package may fool apt is incomprehensible to me. lxqt-branding-debian is not a to-be-updated package.