On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 20:54:22 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 18:39:05 +0100, Géraud Meyer wrote: > > > Preparing to replace x11-common 1:7.1.0-7 (using > > .../x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-8_i386.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement x11-common ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-8_i386.deb (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11/fonts', which is also in package xtel > > Is there a reason why x11-common still has this /usr/lib/X11/fonts > symlink, as well as /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts? Maybe we could just drop > those... > Actually, this problem seems to be caused by a pretty serious issue with xutils-dev: /usr/lib/X11/config/X11.tmpl sets FontDir to $(LIBDIR)/fonts, which means that fonts in packages using imake are installed in /usr/lib/X11/fonts (and that fails, because x11-common includes that as a symlink). I guess this means xutils-dev gets a new RC bug :/
Cheers, Julien
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