Bug#368942: xcursor-themes overwrites conffile in old xlibs-data package
Package: xcursor-themes
Version: 1.0.1-4
Severity: serious
Hi,
Apparently the Conflicts/Replaces of xcursor-themes on xlibs-data (<<
6.8.2-35) isn't sufficient. From an attempted upgrade in a Sid chroot
(which had not been upgraded for some time) today:
Selecting previously deselected package xcursor-themes.
Unpacking xcursor-themes (from .../xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme', which is also in package xlibs-data
Preparing to replace xlibs-data 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 (using .../xlibs-data_1%3a7.0.20_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xlibs-data ...
[snip]
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
[snip]
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xlibs-data:
xlibs-data depends on xcursor-themes; however:
Package xcursor-themes is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xlibs-data (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Come to think of it, the file being overwritten here is a conffile; shouldn't
there be some elaborate ritual to transfer its ownership from xlibs-data to
xcursor-themes, instead of a simple Conflicts/Replaces, anyway?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
-- no debconf information
regards,
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