[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1709885] Re: package libxfont1-dev (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/libxfont-dev/fontlib.html', which is also in package libxfont-dev

2017-08-10 Thread Tim Brooks
I've forced the installation on my machine with `sudo dpkg -i --force- overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libxfont1-dev_1%3a1.5.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb`. The two conflicting files were `/usr/share/doc/libxfont- dev/fontlib.html` and `/usr/share/doc/libxfont-dev/fontlib.txt.gz`. So there should

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1709885] Re: package libxfont1-dev (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/libxfont-dev/fontlib.html', which is also in package libxfont-dev

2017-08-14 Thread Tim Brooks
Hi all. Just to clear this up: The proposed new version of libxfont1-dev (1:1.5.1-1ubuntu0.16.04.2) installs cleanly alongside libxfont-dev (1:2.0.1-3~ubuntu16.04.1). So this bug should be closeable. At the moment, libxfont1-dev is required for xserver-xorg-dev (2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.4), while libxfon