On 2009-10-07 21:51:26 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Version: 4.999.9beta-1 > > I believe the listed bugs are fixed in the new xz-utils prerelease > 4.999.9beta+20091002-1, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP > archive. > > | xz-utils (4.999.9beta-1) experimental; urgency=low > | > | [ Jonathan Nieder ] > | * New upstream release. > | - Fix a data corruption in the compression code. (Closes: #544872) > | - xzdiff: Fix comparing two compressed files. (Closes: #540543) > | - Most of XZ Utils is now in the public domain. (Closes: #541391) > | - Add doc/history.txt to the distributed tarball. (Closes: #541540) > | * Update and clarify copyright file. > | * Drop lzma compatibility commands for now. (Closes: #542060, #540232) > | Add instructions to README.Debian for installing them locally. > [...] > | -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:44:04 -0500 > > Thank you for reporting them. If you have further thoughts, please let > me know, and I will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
There's a problem: previous versions had a xz-lzma package (needed because of lzma dependency IIRC). But it is no longer there, and the upgrade fails: xvii:/home/vinc17# apt-get install xz-utils/experimental Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version 4.999.9beta+20091002-1 (Debian:experimental) for xz-utils The following packages will be upgraded: xz-utils 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 222kB of archives. After this operation, 45.1kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org experimental/main xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20091002-1 [222kB] Fetched 222kB in 1s (189kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 245947 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xz-utils 4.999.9beta-1 (using .../xz-utils_4.999.9beta+20091002-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xz-utils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xz-utils_4.999.9beta+20091002-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/lzmainfo.1.gz', which is also in package xz-lzma 0:4.999.9beta-1 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xz-utils_4.999.9beta+20091002-1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org