On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:46:47PM +1100, Craig Small wrote:
> Package: xlibs
> Version: 4.2.1-4
> Severity: important
>
> Doing a large upgrade of my system and get this:
> Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-14 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-4_i386.deb)
> ...
> Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-4_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package groff
>
> It also complained about xmix but I deleted that package. I'm not sure
> what packages are at fault but it basically means some manual download
> and installs to get it fixed. groff is 1.15-3
>
> Actually dpkg -i --force-overwrite did it.
Yes, groff 1.15-3 is pretty old.
groff (1.15-3) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* mm and mse macros were missing (thanx to Daniel Quinlan to make me
discover this grave bug); closes: #55428.
* corrected wrong .so request in macro mse
-- Fabrizio Polacco <fpolacco@debian.org> Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:25:06 +0200
Is that the version that shipped in woody? If not, it's not worth the trouble
to add all the possible versioned replaces and conflicts this would require.
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