Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:50:09AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> As you can see, there certainly *was* a libffi in Debian, and the >> current libffi packages should declare appropriate >> conflicts/replaces/whatevers with it. But I'm not sure the exact >> right bug to file or which packages. > > Well, fair enough. In that case, since this conflict appears to be with a > file from libffi-dev, the bug should be assigned to libffi-dev requesting > that it conflict/replace libffi. It's definitely not RC though, since > libffi was removed from the archive in April 2001 and was never in a stable > release.
I'm not sure I understand; packages hang around forever in Debian. Users who are following the instructions never get old packages deleted unless there is a conflict requiring it, and that was apparently the case on the OP's system. Ah well, there is much I don't understand about RM... ;) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
