Bug#354146: x11-common: Cannot upgrade from sarge: file conflict with xfree86-common
Hi!
Does really nobody care about this serious bug - it hinders very much
testing of upgrades from sarge to etch.
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: x11-common
> Version: 1:7.0.0
> Severity: grave
>
> After login in a sarge chroot, I installed tetex-bin (probably that can
> be much minimized to only xfree86-common, but I don't have time for
> testing) and then changed sources.list to point to sid.
In fact it's really simple - just install xfree86-common in a sarge
pbuilder chroot, add sid or etch to sources.list, and do the
dist-upgrade.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package xfree86-common
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
The message also sounds as if the fix were particularly easy.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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