Hrm. It goes beyond xscreensaver. For me, it was groff???
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Charl P. Botha wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:34:51PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> > Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-7 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-8_i386.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-8_i386.deb (--unpack):
> > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package
>xscreensaver
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>
> What I did was to use --force-overwrite, I haven't had any problems because
> of this.
>
> > Should I file a bugreport against xscreensaver? What is the correct
> > thing to do?
>
> AFAICR, yes, you should. X clients should use /etc/X11/app-defaults.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Charl
>
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