[arch-general] error during update of qt4 and qt5

[Alexandre Ferrando]

On 15 March 2013 11:19, phani <listmail at phanisvara.com> wrote:
> pacman wanted to update some qt4 and qt5 packages, but this didn't work
> because of the following error:
>
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> /usr/share/applications/assistant.desktop exists in both 'qt4' and
> 'qt5-tools'
> /usr/share/applications/designer.desktop exists in both 'qt4' and
> 'qt5-tools'
> /usr/share/applications/linguist.desktop exists in both 'qt4' and
> 'qt5-tools'
>
> seems both qt versions are trying to provide .desktop files with the same
> name. what to do about this?
>
> --
> phani.


Filing a bug report at http://bugs.archlinux.org seems the best way to
give devs a heads-up about this.