On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:35:56PM -0400, Ray Kohler wrote: > Package: x11-common > Version: 1:7.0.16 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > Version 7.0.16 of x11-common depends on xfree86-common, which is a > "useless" compatibility package. Making things worse is that > xfree86-common conflicts with x11-common. This prevents x11-common from > being installed at all. > I screwed this up. It installs fine if I do it right. So your assessment is that there's no bug here? What way did you do it first that was "wrong", btw? On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:15:29AM +0800, Haifeng Chen wrote: > The installation is not clean. > You can find the following script in the xfree86-common.postinst. > # Just move the Xsession file if it's still around > if [ -f /etc/X11/Xsession ]; then > mv /etc/X11/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession.xfree86 > fi Right... this is a problem because plenty of users already *have* an x11-common on their system (in unstable) that contains /etc/X11/Xsession, so this code deletes the x11-common version of the config file for those users -- not the xfree86-common version! The workaround is, after upgrade, to run apt-get install --reinstall -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confmiss x11-common to restore the missing /etc/X11/Xsession file. This bug will only affect upgrades within unstable; it will not affect users who are still running testing, so technically this is not release-critical (it doesn't need to be fixed before xorg is updated in testing), but it's still rather nasty... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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