libffi upgrade broken by libgcrypt

[stuart-little]

Problem description

Trying to upgrade libffi fails and produces the error

Preparing to unpack .../libffi_3.3-1_aarch64.deb ...
Unpacking libffi (3.3-1) over (3.3) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/var/cache/apt/archives/libffi_3.3-1_aarch64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/info/dir', which is also in package libgcrypt 1.8.5-2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/var/cache/apt/archives/libffi_3.3-1_aarch64.deb
E: Sub-process /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Steps to reproduce

Assuming you have libffi installed, run apt upgrade.

Expected behavior

Normal error-free upgrade.

Additional information

Packages CPU architecture:
aarch64
Subscribed repositories:
# sources.list
deb https://termux.org/packages/ stable main
# game-repo (sources.list.d/game.list)
deb https://dl.bintray.com/grimler/game-packages-24 games stable
# sources.list.d/science.list.bak
deb https://dl.bintray.com/grimler/science-packages-24 science stable
# science-repo (sources.list.d/science.list)
deb https://dl.bintray.com/grimler/science-packages-24 science stable
# sources.list.d/game.list.bak
deb https://dl.bintray.com/grimler/game-packages-24 games stable
Updatable packages:
libffi/stable 3.3-1 aarch64 [upgradable from: 3.3]
Android version:
10
Kernel build information:
Linux localhost 4.9.179-perf+ #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 5 21:31:00 CST 2020 aarch64 Android
Device manufacturer:
OnePlus
Device model:
ONEPLUS A6013

[finagolfin]

Yeah, I just hit this too.

[landfillbaby]

dpkg: error processing archive /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/var/cache/apt/archives/libgcrypt_1.8.5-2_aarch64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/info/dir', which is also in package flex 2.6.4-2

the same file that conflicts between libgcrypt and libffi also conflicts with flex
also everything is being bumped right now and there was no corresponding commit in the repo. what is happening?

[ghost]

also everything is being bumped right now and there was no corresponding commit in the repo. what is happening?

Read this: #5478 (comment). Lots of packages are going to be rebuilt and this is currently being done from non-master branch.

[ghost]

I guess all packages containing info documentation will conflict with each other currently. I can fix that for common/known packages, but I do not have full list of those installing the usr/share/info/dir.

[landfillbaby]

$ dpkg -S $PREFIX/share/info
bash, gnupg, texinfo, libksba, readline, fftw, libffi, bison, libgmp, libgpg-error, coreutils, libnettle, libmpfr, libtool, gzip, gawk, libgnutls, libassuan, inetutils, automake, make, grep, libidn2, libunistring, gdbm, flex, m4, diffutils, findutils, gdb, libgcrypt, ed, tar, sed, binutils: /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/share/info

does this help?

[Grimler91]

Updates seem to be available now, I was at least able to upgrade my all packages on my two main devices without additional problems.

Thanks for reporting @stuart-little and thanks for the list @landfillbaby