Bug#365948: x11-common: broken depends on compat package xfree86-common

[Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cmu.edu>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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?

Right, I don't think there's really a bug here. What I did wrong, was to 
try to install them "by hand" with dpkg, and not to notice that I was 
dealing with a Pre-Depends rather than an ordinary Depends. In any case, 
I can't reproduce it at all installing it with apt-get.

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