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Package: usrmerge
Version: 19
Severity: minor
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Dear Maintainer,
I just installed usrmerge on my laptop, running debian unstable. I run
into the well-known iptables/ebtables error.
Setting up usrmerge (19) ...
FATAL ERROR:
Both /sbin/ebtables and /usr/sbin/ebtables exist.
So what I did is that I removed ebtables:
sudo apt-get purge ebtables
Which solved the problem.
Now I have a question/suggestion regarding the output of usrmerge, which
told me in this case:
You can try correcting the errors reported and running again
/usr/lib/convert-usrmerge until it will complete without errors.
Do not install or update other Debian packages until the program
has been run successfully.
usrmerge tells me not to install or update, however it doesn't say
anything about removing a package. So I just assumed it was OK to remove
ebtables, and apparently it worked.
If removing a package is supported in this case, what do you think about
explicitly mentioning it in the message? Adding a simple sentence like
"Removing a package is safe though", or something similar.
My guess is that in situation where two packages conflict, the obvious
solution is to remove one of those. But because the message above tells
me not to install or update anything, I'm left in doubt regarding removing
a package. Maybe clarifying that would be helpful.
Thanks (and thanks for all the work on usrmerge),
Arnaud
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages usrmerge depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.69
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
usrmerge recommends no packages.
usrmerge suggests no packages.
- -- debconf information:
* usrmerge/autoconvert: true
usrmerge/title:
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: usrmerge
Source-Version: 20
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
usrmerge, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> (supplier of updated usrmerge package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:37:38 +0100
Source: usrmerge
Binary: usrmerge
Architecture: source all
Version: 20
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Marco d'Itri <[email protected]>
Description:
usrmerge - Convert the system to the merged /usr directories scheme
Closes: 914409 915883
Changes:
usrmerge (20) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Use dh_perl to add a missing dependency on perl. (Closes: #915883)
* Documented that packages can be removed while a conversion is in
progress. (Closes: #914409)
* Added a conflict with molly-guard, again (see #914716).
* Added a conflict with ebtables (see #913883).
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