testing: package xlibs conflicts with xmcd
Just ran an apt-get -u upgrade and pulled the new X packages from
testing. When It came time to upgrade xlibs, I got the following:
debian:/home/vanbalen# apt-get -u upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
xlibs
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
18 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1208kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 38534 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-5 (using .../xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in
package xmcd
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Running dpkg --purge xmcd fixed the problem and I'm not currently using
xmcd so it's not a problem. However, if I ever want to use xmcd or if
there's someone out there that uses xmcd...
Will this be fixed when the xmcd package from unstable makes it into
testing?
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