Bug#390589: x11-common: Add conflicts against old debian packages
Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.0.22
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I just try to update a (very) old machine. The upgrade fails due to
/usr/X11R6/bin not empty. To solve this, I had to run:
dpkg --purge xephem communicator-smotif-477 netscape-base-4 \
netscape-base-477 communicator-base-477 communicator
I know these are very old packages not present in the distribution since
a long time (at least for communicator/netscape packages). However,
nothing prevent them to be kept on the computer. And having a major
upgrade interrupted is often a real pain. So, it can be usefull to add
conflicts against old Debian package. For my situation, a conflict
against xephem and netscape-base-4 would have been working.
Best regards,
Vincent
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.3 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
x11-common recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
x11-common/experimental_packages:
x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
* x11-common/upgrade_issues:
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10
x11-common/x11r6_bin_not_empty:
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