Bug#247645: libxft-dev: apt-get upgrade reports unmet dependencies
Package: libxft-dev
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental
apt-get upgrade reports:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
e2fsprogs: PreDepends: e2fslibs (= 1.35-4) but 1.35-5 is installed
libxft-dev: Depends: libxft2 (= 2.1.2-5) but 2.1.2-6 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
Trying apt-get -f install I get:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxft-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libxft-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 117 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/60.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 4096B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 75711 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ...
diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev
Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting
`/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' with
different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I'm a bit stumped by it all.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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