On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 03:52:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > It seems that our perl upgrade from woody to sarge is not robust if it > dies in the middle. The X problem below caused the first apt run to fail > with various parts of perl unpacked and not configured. Then it looks > like debconf (which uses Iconv) was unable to run. Probably a dpkg > --configure -a would have cleared this up; reinstalling perl manually > had the same result. [...] > Preparing to replace x-dev 4.3.0.dfsg.1-0.woody.1 (using .../x-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement x-dev ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/DECkeysym.h', which is also in package xlibs-dev > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Please note that version number. "4.3.0.dfsg.1-0.woody.1" is some sort of unofficial backport. My versioned conflicts/replaces/provides/etc. cannot be expected to take into account the crazy things backporters do. I will support upgrades from woody systems. I don't think it's reasonable to expect any Debian developer to support upgrades from loony hybrid installations using all manner of unofficial packages we've never even shipped. -- G. Branden Robinson | If a man ate a pound of pasta and a Debian GNU/Linux | pound of antipasto, would they branden@debian.org | cancel out, leaving him still http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hungry? -- Scott Adams
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