Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

2009-08-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 542060 + pending thanks This should be fixed with xz-lzma 4.999.8beta+20090817-1 + lzma 4.43-15 by using alternatives. Thanks to Mohammed Adnène Trojette for pointing out the very clean fix. See the Debian lzma commit log [1] for details. [1]

Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

2009-08-17 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: xz-utils Version: 4.999.8beta-1 Severity: grave xz-utils conflicts with the pseudo-essential package lzma. This makes it uninstallable at all. Bastian -- Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing. -- Spock, The Cloud Minders, stardate 5818.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

2009-08-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Bastian, You wrote: xz-utils conflicts with the pseudo-essential package lzma. This makes it uninstallable at all. Could you explain further? xz-utils in experimental Conflicts/Provides/Replaces lzma, and I have no trouble installing it. (In the next version [1], it will be a separate

Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

2009-08-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:07:53PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: xz-utils conflicts with the pseudo-essential package lzma. This makes it uninstallable at all. Could you explain further? xz-utils in experimental Conflicts/Provides/Replaces lzma, and I have no trouble installing it. apt

Bug#542060: xz-utils - Conflicts with pseudo-essential package

2009-08-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bastian Blank wrote: | WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. | This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! |   lzma (due to dpkg) | 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 81 not upgraded. | Need to get 259kB of archives. | After this