Bug#285075: marked as done (xutils: apt-get upgrade fails for today's DSA (security advisory). )
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Subject: xutils: apt-get upgrade fails for today's DSA (security advisory).
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Package: xutils
Version: 4.1.0-16woody4
Severity: important
Tags: security
This is a pure woody system.
The error message I get is:
Preparing to replace xutils 4.1.0-16woody4 (using .../xutils_4.1.0-16woody5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xutils ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xutils_4.1.0-16woody5_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin/atobm', which is also in package xbase-clients
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
(xbase-clients on the system is: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (20, 'unstable'), (20, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages xutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#285075: xutils: apt-get upgrade fails for today's DSA (security advisory).
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:25:42PM -0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> # There's no way this is a security bug
> package xutils
> tags 285075 - security
> severity 285075 normal
> thanks control
>=20
> On Friday, December 10, 2004 1:56 PM, D Goel <deego@gnufans.org> wrote:
>=20
> > Package: xutils
> > Version: 4.1.0-16woody4
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: security
> >
> > This is a pure woody system.
>=20
> No it isn't:
>=20
> > (xbase-clients on the system is: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8).
> [...]
> > Versions of packages xutils depends on:
> > ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries an
> > ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for termi=
nal
> hand
> > ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System (XFree86)
> infrastr
> > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runt=
ime
>=20
> *None* of the above packages are in woody - even if you're reporting from=
a
> different system, xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 does not exist in pure woo=
dy.
>=20
> Installing woody packages on a sarge/sid system is not, and cannot be, a
> supported configuration.
>=20
> IMHO this bug should be closed, but I'll downgrade it for now and leave t=
hat
> decision to Branden or Fabbione.
You are correct, and this bug should be closed.
Closing it.
--=20
G. Branden Robinson | Nixon was so crooked that he needed
Debian GNU/Linux | servants to help him screw his
branden@debian.org | pants on every morning.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Hunter S. Thompson
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