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Bug#368942: marked as done (xcursor-themes overwrites conffile in old xlibs-data package)

Your message dated Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:19:05 +0200
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and subject line Bug#368942: xcursor-themes: trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme'
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Package: xcursor-themes
Version: 1.0.1-4
Severity: serious

Hi,

Apparently the Conflicts/Replaces of xcursor-themes on xlibs-data (<<
6.8.2-35) isn't sufficient.  From an attempted upgrade in a Sid chroot
(which had not been upgraded for some time) today:


Selecting previously deselected package xcursor-themes.
Unpacking xcursor-themes (from .../xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme', which is also in package xlibs-data
Preparing to replace xlibs-data 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 (using .../xlibs-data_1%3a7.0.20_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xlibs-data ...
[snip]
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
[snip]
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xlibs-data:
 xlibs-data depends on xcursor-themes; however:
  Package xcursor-themes is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xlibs-data (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured


Come to think of it, the file being overwritten here is a conffile; shouldn't
there be some elaborate ritual to transfer its ownership from xlibs-data to
xcursor-themes, instead of a simple Conflicts/Replaces, anyway?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

-- no debconf information

regards,

-- 
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Amos Waterland wrote:
> In the process of upgrading saw this, seems like a bad thing ...
>
> Selecting previously deselected package xcursor-themes.
> Unpacking xcursor-themes (from .../xcursor-themes_1.0.1-5_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-5_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme', which is also in 
> package xlibs-data
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-5_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>   

Unless I am mistaking, this problem only occurs when upgrading from Xorg
6.9 (intermediate testing/unstable state in early 2006) to modular Xorg
or so. Since Sarge has XFree86 4.3 and Etch has Xorg 7.1, upgrading from
6.9 is not going to be fixed anymore. Closing this bug.

Brice

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