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, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
