Bug#373691: 3 more packages x11-common needs to conflict with
Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.0.20
Severity: normal
Severity note: this problem blocks the upgrade of X11 and any other
packages that happen to be upgrade targets at the same time. It may
leave the user without a functioning X. So it may warrant higher
severity. On the other hand, the packages that caused the trouble are
likely not too common, and there is a work-around.
I'm reporting this as suggested in http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7.
The following packages own stuff in /usr/X11/bin/, and thus make the
upgrade impossible. The work-around is to purge them with dpkg -P.
apt-get remove does not work; it gags on the weird state of things in
the middle of the X transition.
x11-common needs to conflict with
cbb
guitar
xext
Once I dpkg -P'd these packages I was able to complete the upgrade
with
apt-get -f install
apt-get dist-upgrade
I had initiated the upgrade with
apt-get dist-upgrade
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
x11-common recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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