Bug#370353: x11-common: installation breaks when trying to overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin with a symlink

[Marc Langer <marc@marclanger.de>]

Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.0.20
Severity: important

I am using opera-7.54 and installed the latest x11-common upgrade from
unstable. During installation I got the following error from dpkg:

trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package opera

Opera includes a link /usr/X11R6/bin/opera to the real opera location.
Other packages could place files there, too.

x11-common tries to overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin with a symlink to /usr/bin
which fails in this cases. Manual installation with --force-overwrite
is necessary.

This might be an issue for users upgrading from sarge to etch after release.

If you think this should be rather documented, please reassign this bug
report to the release-notes pseudo package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.2
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.1      Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-8      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

x11-common recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded