Re: dpkg bug?

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Timothy Bedding (tim@bedding0.demon.co.uk):
> I think I have hit a bug in dpkg. I try to install an older
> version of xlib6g but I get a failure because xlib6g depends
> on libxaw6. However, I think only the new version of xlib6g (4.0.2)
> depends on libxaw6. The old version (3.3.6 from potato) does
> not depend on libxaw6. (Please can someone with potato verify
> this.)
> 
> So, this makes me think that there is a bug because dpkg
> should realise that the destination version of xlib6g has
> no requirement and thus should not fail.

>  libxaw6 conflicts with xlib6g (<< 4.0)

...so you can't install lib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb.
So remove libxaw6 first.

BTW can you clean up your script pastes when you post them
(i.e. the backspaces after "shutdown").

Cheers,

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