severity 468899 serious retitle 468899 does not upgrade properly from version << 5.04-3 thanks
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008, Peter Hicks wrote: > xscreensaver appears to contain files that are also in xscreenserver-data: > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xscreensaver: > xscreensaver depends on xscreensaver-data; however: > Package xscreensaver-data is not installed. > dpkg: error processing xscreensaver (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > xscreensaver This error message is the second one... the first one is when the installation of xscreensaver-data fails due to the conflict with files in xscreensaver: (in french sorry) Dépaquetage de xscreensaver-data (à partir de .../xscreensaver-data_5.04-3_i386.deb) ... dpkg : erreur de traitement de /var/cache/apt/archives/xscreensaver-data_5.04-3_i386.deb (--unpack) : tentative de remplacement de « /usr/lib/xscreensaver/fuzzyflakes », qui appartient aussi au paquet xscreensaver dpkg-deb: sous-processus paste tué par le signal (Relais brisé (pipe)) If you retry dist-upgrade, it works, this means that you probably moved files around but you forgot to add proper Replaces field. xscreensaver-data (and -extra) needs at least to Replaces: xscreensaver (<< 5.04-3) and probably also Conflicts xscreensaver-data also needs to Replaces: xscreensaver-gl (<< 5.04-3) apparently (If I read the changelog correctly). You could also add Conflicts field against the same packages to force the upgrade of xscreensaver & xscreensaver-gl at the same time. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
