Nathaniel, you are right -- reporting a bug against -10 and hearing it is fixed in -7 is a little strange.
WRT your error message, I have approached similar problems in the past by using dpkg directly on the apt-downloaded .deb packages, using the --force-overwrite option. The problem isn't the actual presence of a file there -- it is two packages that claim to own the file. My guess says your collection of packages may have the xconsole.real package moving around from one package to the next between upgrades. I don't know how well apt and/or dpkg would handle these situations. (BTW -- when using apt to upgrade from slink to potato, using dist-upgrade instead of just upgrade may take care of some of these issues... ) I hope this helps explain things. I don't know for sure what happened in your case, but usually force-overwrite does the right thing. :) * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001130 11:47]: > ----- Forwarded message from Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Zdenek Kabelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Bug#68389: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by > developer (fixed with -7)] > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:24:31 +0100 > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-To: [email protected] > Resent-Cc: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:33:11 GMT > Resent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Debian-PR-Message: report 68389 > X-Debian-PR-Package: xbase-clients > X-Debian-PR-Keywords: > X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Forwarded message from Nathaniel Rounds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Delivery-date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:01:36 +0100 > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:03:39 -0500 (EST) > From: Nathaniel Rounds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by developer (fixed with -7) > > I assume that this email is going to a real person.... > > Hi. I am glad to hear that someone has looked at the bug report that I > sent in, but I can't say that I particularly understood the attached > explaination. Here's my dilemia: I had trouble updating xbase-client, and > thus the bulk of x-window software from slink to potato. When potato > became the stable debain release, I figured I'd better upgrade, but I held > the slink versions of xbase-client and the various x-window applications > which depend ot it and upgraded the rest of my system. So here is my > problem: if I install the potato versions and they still don't work, I > won't have the slink versions to go back to (I don't think I can get them > from debian anymore) and so I will be left without a working x-window. > No fun. > > Perhaps if you (and by you I mean Darren Benham, his associates, or any > wise unix guru who runs accross my email) could explain exactly what the > developer did in closing my bug report (#68389), I could figure out if I > can upgrade with minimal fear of hosing my system. > > Thanks a lot, > > Nathaniel Rounds > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report #68389: > > xbase-clients: package preinst needs to get rid of xconsole > > alternative, which was filed against the xbase-clients package. > > > > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely > > Zdenek Kabelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > > message then please contact the developer directly, or email > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or me. > > > > Darren Benham > > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > > > Received: (at 77550-done) by bugs.debian.org; 22 Nov 2000 14:18:11 +0000 > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 22 08:18:10 2000 > > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Received: from aragorn.ics.muni.cz [147.251.4.33] > > by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) > > id 13yaiv-0000vl-00; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:18:09 -0600 > > Received: from anxur.fi.muni.cz ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [147.251.48.3]) > > by aragorn.ics.muni.cz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA19965 > > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:18:07 +0100 (MET) > > Received: from dual.fi.muni.cz ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [147.251.51.21]) > > by anxur.fi.muni.cz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA25151 > > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:18:06 +0100 (MET) > > Received: from kabi by dual.fi.muni.cz with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) > > id 13yait-0001rw-00; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:18:07 +0100 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: fixed with -7 > > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: Zdenek Kabelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:18:07 +0100 > > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | <joeyh> oh my, it's a UP P III. > Debian GNU/Linux | <doogie> dos it. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * joeyh runs dselect > http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | <Overfiend> that ought to be sufficient :) -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.''
