On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 05:32:31PM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote:
> The Debian package of Abiword, (...) is causing problems on my potato
> system. Here's the dpkg output:
>
> Preparing to replace xfree86-common 3.3.3.1-7 (using
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_3.3.3.1-8_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xfree86-common ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_3.3.3.1-8_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/X11', which is also in package abisuite
>
> <snippage>
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_3.3.3.1-8_all.deb
> E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
> Some errors occurred while unpacking. <blah blah blah>
Oh this is interesting...
> It seems to me that /usr/bin/X11 *should* belong to xfree86-common, but
> I don't know for sure. I'm going to go ahead and remove/reinstall it
> for now, that should deal with the problem temporarily.
You're right...
> Does AbiSource have any plans to keep in touch with the previous
> maintainer of Debian's abiword/abi-fonts packages, so that someone can
> be in charge of keeping the packages policy-compliant, taking care of
> bug reports about the packaging, etc? I hate to take your time away
> from doing the actual coding instead of compiling packages.
I'm here, following the list, too. The ultimate goal is for someone at Abi
to become the maintainer on Debian.
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