I think I have hit a bug in dpkg. I try to install an older version of xlib6g but I get a failure because xlib6g depends on libxaw6. However, I think only the new version of xlib6g (4.0.2) depends on libxaw6. The old version (3.3.6 from potato) does not depend on libxaw6. (Please can someone with potato verify this.)
So, this makes me think that there is a bug because dpkg should realise that the destination version of xlib6g has no requirement and thus should not fail. Below is the output from dpkg just in case I have misread it. I assume I can force the downgrade to succeed with the appropriate force flags but I do not like this solution. I have dpkg version 1.6.15 installed. Any suggestions anyone? Should I contact the maintainer for dpkg to ask for a fixed version? Script started on Tue Mar 13 23:39:05 2001 spacetime:/home/tim# shutdown -h now[Kdpkg -i xlib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading xlib6g from 4.0.2-7 to 3.3.6-11potato15. dpkg: considering removing libxaw6 in favour of xlib6g ... dpkg: no, cannot remove libxaw6 (--auto-deconfigure will help): xlib6g depends on libxaw6 libxaw6 is to be removed. dpkg: regarding xlib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb containing xlib6g: libxaw6 conflicts with xlib6g (<< 4.0) xlib6g (version 3.3.6-11potato15) is to be installed. dpkg: error processing xlib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing xlib6g Errors were encountered while processing: xlib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb spacetime:/home/tim# exit Script done on Tue Mar 13 23:39:22 2001
