Package: usrmerge Version: 19 Severity: minor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512
Dear Maintainer, I just installed usrmerge on my laptop, running debian unstable. I run into the well-known iptables/ebtables error. Setting up usrmerge (19) ... FATAL ERROR: Both /sbin/ebtables and /usr/sbin/ebtables exist. So what I did is that I removed ebtables: sudo apt-get purge ebtables Which solved the problem. Now I have a question/suggestion regarding the output of usrmerge, which told me in this case: You can try correcting the errors reported and running again /usr/lib/convert-usrmerge until it will complete without errors. Do not install or update other Debian packages until the program has been run successfully. usrmerge tells me not to install or update, however it doesn't say anything about removing a package. So I just assumed it was OK to remove ebtables, and apparently it worked. If removing a package is supported in this case, what do you think about explicitly mentioning it in the message? Adding a simple sentence like "Removing a package is safe though", or something similar. My guess is that in situation where two packages conflict, the obvious solution is to remove one of those. But because the message above tells me not to install or update anything, I'm left in doubt regarding removing a package. Maybe clarifying that would be helpful. Thanks (and thanks for all the work on usrmerge), Arnaud - -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages usrmerge depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.69 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 usrmerge recommends no packages. usrmerge suggests no packages. - -- debconf information: * usrmerge/autoconvert: true usrmerge/title: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJTBAEBCgA9FiEE0Kl7ndbut+9n4bYs5yXoeRRgAhYFAlv3saofHGFybmF1ZC5y ZWJpbGxvdXRAY29sbGFib3JhLmNvbQAKCRDnJeh5FGACFia2EACaTqzvnMGtcRIY 7EiKuh9QUdcknsA4cPuqflwyaWNoRiAr5h+ETp74oyocQLFEyMLJ+1qefDfPkKwa IsCn/rnHc4/L3uDL1fPSH2uINQ5AQBKwOxuZM9JukYNPnjqx9fmyuJS55LdcElpC QaJP3yZxHde+u5Fa6mE/6mfFo3NnoelV5idxrzpHc0Ore2xFBihqFBa+Mci/hKwH q0RT5GRqhTt2tQRspi3iLdlk5w7ZT9G06YbP0ilxPlqYaUqufecT+zmc982bjkW8 qhunDUM46zq2EsYG2C3Oq+AmC6cY6GCsYyBJR5ktTWbayrB8urfAHwCfOi3mWF3N ewqlL3Uo9kiVcExsCQLLCiHau7OR/dqXCMHjwfni1ekt9VN2hSS3w/0tNvSCxSha MLAXULbEzaFV3WsEcwyPDaLpaskTs6UkOTfGqv7tl8ICKh/BDJ9v6enmmZOGGhzl qT7rS3lbcN8MX/O4hlPzAHsjAzMp/H3ejGPUGUgGAk6XBBeZRu3b2yl6wRz9Tspe RA3kfsl6xqAijab6yelpc7UTaXAKkT782d9+tEfVlWGuzY/u9mMc/LCh0iXC0mU0 k/DOMC/Sr9UyLi0K8D00I1Hk0oLtgPGPYO/XD5JQ2pPX3ycwVn4TUFsRcFxpmFmU JkUUhpQ9F/GQUUYJt3ue6bE/07Apdg== =GyqF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
