Package: libcupt-perl Version: 1.5.0 Severity: Normal With the recent X upgrade, cupt had problems updating xserver-xorg-core and the xserver-xorg-video-* packages. This is due to the new xserver-xorg-core package Conflicting with xserver-xorg-video-5 and the new video packages Depending on xserver-xorg-core >= 2:1.6.99.900 (i.e., the new package). See below (with some editing for clarity).
Running safe-upgrade a few times gradually works, as each run seems to upgrade one of the xserver-xorg-video-* packages before attempting xserver-xorg-core, where it errors out. After a few runs, all of the video packages have been upgraded and the core package upgrade succeeds. This may be another case where using Breaks would be the better solution (e.g., xserver-xorg-core Breaks: xserver-xorg-video-5) and I'll poke Julien about that later. I'm filing this bug, though, since cupt does seem to partially handle the situation but needs some hand-holding to complete the upgrade. It's almost as if only one of the packages Providing xserver-xorg-video-5 is being considered (and therefore upgraded) each run. $ cupt safe-upgrade ... dpkg: regarding ../xserver-xorg-core_2:1.7.3.902-1_i386.deb containing xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core conflicts with xserver-xorg-video-5 xserver-xorg-video-vesa provides xserver-xorg-video-5 and is present and installed. xserver-xorg-video-fbdev provides xserver-xorg-video-5 and is present and installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2:1.7.3.902-1_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing xserver-xorg-core Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2:1.7.3.902-1_i386.deb E: /usr/bin/dpkg --unpack --force-bad-path /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2:1.7.3.902-1_i386.deb returned non-zero status: 256 E: error performing command 'safe-upgrade' $ cupt show -a xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-vesa | egrep '^(Package|Version|Depends|Conflicts|Provides)' Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.6.5-1 Depends: <elided> Conflicts: ..., xserver-xorg-video-2, xserver-xorg-video-4 Provides: xserver Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.7.3.902-1 Depends: <elided> Conflicts: ..., xserver-xorg-video-2, xserver-xorg-video-4, xserver-xorg-video-5 Provide: xserver Package: xserver-xorg-video-vesa Version: 1:2.2.1-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.2) Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-vesa Provides: xserver-xorg-video-5 Package: xserver-xorg-video-vesa Version: 1:2.2.1-2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.6.99.900) Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-vesa Provides: xserver-xorg-video-6 -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libcupt-perl depends on: ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.25~01-1 Perl module with additional list f ii libparse-recdescent-perl 1.962.2+dfsg-1 Perl module to create and use recu ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term ii liburi-perl 1.50-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii libwww-curl-perl 4.11-1 Perl bindings to libcurl ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages libcupt-perl recommends: ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii gpgv 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - signature veri ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 Using libc functions for internati Versions of packages libcupt-perl suggests: ii cupt 1.5.0 alternative front-end for dpkg -- pn debdelta <none> (no description available) ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.5 Debian package development tools pn dpkg-repack <none> (no description available) ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
