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Many time, apt-get break on conflicting files. It happens me often on unstable but also when upgrading from slink to potato. Here some recommendations to help users resolved the conflicts and also to help maintainers do the Right Things (TM) the first time. Should we consider building a debian-mentors FAQ for things like this? ------------- For users: When a conflict occurs, try to run apt-get -f install several time until all conflict are removed or no more packages can be install without conflicting somewhere else. Sometime it takes more than one turn to apt-get to correct those packages. Also, take in note the conflicting packages and report them to the BTS under the package one you was trying to install or upgrade. This will help to improve the overall quality of Debian. For maintainers: Moving files from one package to another. Supposed that you move a file from Package foo to Package bar. If Package foo still existed, Package bar should included a Conflicts reading this way: Conflicts: foo (<< new-version) where new-version is the version of the Package foo who has the conflicting file removed. If foo is removed, you should change it to Conflicts: foo or Conflicts: foo (<= old-version) where old-version is the latest version of foo. This last one don't handle local package in the form of foo old-version.1 (that's the recommended way to do local NMU) and that's why it should be avoid when possible. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles Chevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Gris Debian GNU/Linux maintainer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://www.tzone.org/~fabien RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
