The bug number is 40445.
Rob
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 09:38:05AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 29 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??"
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:37:39AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> >> *- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??"
> >> > Why does vnc-doc conflict with vncserver and xvncviewer? That is dumb.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Because the old vnc and vnc-doc packages are replaced by the
> >> newer split packages vncserver, xvncviewer, etc.
> >
> > Allow me to be more specific: where did the rest of the vnc
> > documentation go? I like unneccessary information and have trouble
> > with the idea that the html markup in the obseleted vnc-doc package
> > caused a 20-fold increase in its size. I dislike reading
> > documentation on the internet. That is the dumb part.
> >
> > I will probably do a dpkg --force-depends on this, but that seems an
> > ugly kludge.
> >
>
> Ahhhhh, I see. I failed to see that there still exists a vnc-doc
> package. I would call this a bug in the vncserver and [s|x]vncviewer
> packages. They need to have versions on the conflicts. They need to
> conflict with the older vnc-doc from 2.0 but now with the vnc-doc from
> 2.1. I will file a bug report. To install the slink vnc-doc use
> --force-conflicts.
>
> dpkg --force-conflicts -i vnc-doc*.deb
>
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