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- To: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
- Cc: Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>, 387561@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#387561: gnucash/libffi: upgrade renders system non-functional
- From: Ross Boylan <ross@betterworld.us>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:24:33 -0700
- Message-id: <20060915102433.GA6494@wheat.betterworld.us>
- In-reply-to: <u1hac518wit.fsf@kempis.becket.net>
- References: <20060915051007.4771.3066.reportbug@wheat.betterworld.us> <u1hac518wit.fsf@kempis.becket.net>
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:38:18PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
>
> > Package: gnucash
> > Version: 2.0.1-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > May warrant severity critical, but it's unclear what package is
> > responsible. gnucash may be able to work around it with appropriate
> > dependencies. And maybe my system is unusual.
> >
> > This report includes a work-around at the bottom.
> >
> > PROBLEM
> > I track testing, and recently did a dist-upgrade that included
> > gnucash. The result was
> > Unpacking libffi4-dev (from .../libffi4-dev_4.1.1-13_i386.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libffi4-dev_4.1.1-13_i386.deb (--unpack):
> > trying to overwrite `/usr/include/ffi.h', which is also in package libffi
>
> I'm sorry, there has never been a package "libffi" in Debian.
According to
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2000/12/msg02109.html
for example, libffi is a Debian package.
>
> I don't know where your package by that name came from, but clearly it
> was causing the difficulty.
Perhaps the current libffi's need to conflict with the old ones?
As I said, this may not be a gnucash issue, but I think reassigning
rather than closing would be better.
>
> Thomas
>
>
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