Re: Bug#413281: x11-common: sarge to etch upgrade fails
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:02:40AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2007 at 00:41:16 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:15:40AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > Do you have any idea where hanterm comes from?
> >
> > Yes, it comes from hanterm-classic and/or hanterm-xf (there is an
> > alternative)
> >
> > # ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6001 Apr 21 2003 hamsoft
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Mar 3 21:03 hanterm -> /etc/alternatives/hanterm
> >
> > # ls -l /etc/alternatives/hanterm
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 3 21:03 /etc/alternatives/hanterm -> /usr/bin/X11/hanterm-classic
> >
> x11-common already conflicts with earlier versions of these packages, so
> I'm not sure what else we can do on the X side.
> hanterm-classic is not in etch, so nothing we can do there either.
> However it seems that hanterm-xf in etch still installs its alternative
> in /usr/bin/X11, which I guess can cause problems if it is configured
> before x11-common is unpacked.
> I don't really understand how only the symlink is still in
> /usr/X11R6/bin in your upgrade scenario, though, could it be a bug in
> hanterm-classic's prerm, which doesn't remove the alternative cleanly?
The issue seems that it installs the alternative in
/usr/bin/X11/ not in /usr/X11R6/bin/.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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