On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 03:52:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> It seems that our perl upgrade from woody to sarge is not robust if it
> dies in the middle. The X problem below caused the first apt run to fail
> with various parts of perl unpacked and not configured. Then it looks
> like debconf (which uses Iconv) was unable to run. Probably a dpkg
> --configure -a would have cleared this up; reinstalling perl manually
> had the same result.
[...]
> Preparing to replace x-dev 4.3.0.dfsg.1-0.woody.1 (using
> .../x-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement x-dev ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x-dev_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/DECkeysym.h', which is also in
> package xlibs-dev
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Please note that version number. "4.3.0.dfsg.1-0.woody.1" is some sort of
unofficial backport.
My versioned conflicts/replaces/provides/etc. cannot be expected to take
into account the crazy things backporters do.
I will support upgrades from woody systems. I don't think it's reasonable
to expect any Debian developer to support upgrades from loony hybrid
installations using all manner of unofficial packages we've never even
shipped.
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Debian GNU/Linux | pound of antipasto, would they
branden@xxxxxxxxxx | cancel out, leaving him still
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