Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

tags 542060 + pending thanks This should be fixed with xz-lzma 4.999.8beta+20090817-1 + lzma 4.43-15 by using alternatives. Thanks to Mohammed Adnène Trojette for pointing out the very clean fix. See the Debian lzma commit log [1] for details. [1]

Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

Bastian Blank wrote: > | WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > | This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > |   lzma (due to dpkg) > | 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 81 not upgraded. > | Need to get 259kB of archives. > | After this

Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > xz-utils conflicts with the pseudo-essential package lzma. This makes it > > uninstallable at all. > Could you explain further? xz-utils in experimental > Conflicts/Provides/Replaces lzma, and I have no trouble installing it. apt

Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

Hi Bastian, You wrote: > xz-utils conflicts with the pseudo-essential package lzma. This makes it > uninstallable at all. Could you explain further? xz-utils in experimental Conflicts/Provides/Replaces lzma, and I have no trouble installing it. (In the next version [1], it will be a separate xz

Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

Package: xz-utils Version: 4.999.8beta-1 Severity: grave xz-utils conflicts with the pseudo-essential package lzma. This makes it uninstallable at all. Bastian -- Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing. -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,