On 2009-08-11 03:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > When I want to install xz-utils (from experimental) on a Debian/unstable > machine, apt-get wants to remove lzma because xz-utils conflicts with it.
That's the reason why it was uploaded to experimental, I suppose. > I get the following warning: > > 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) > > However xz-utils provides lzma, so I don't see what could be wrong. > So, is it OK? Probably. The worst case scenario is that it doesn't work and you are no longer be able to unpack lzma-compressed debs. But that should not really happen if the maintainers have tested their package. Technically, since dpkg Pre-Depends on lzma, this means that it could (theoretically) be not functional during the time that lzma is removed, but xz-utils is not yet installed. In practice this is not an issue, though. > Since lzma has been replaced by xz-utils upstream, shouldn't xz-utils > be essential instead of lzma? When it finally gets uploaded to unstable, there needs to be a transitional lzma package that Pre-Depends on xz-utils to facilitate a smooth transition. But I don't know about the maintainers' plans. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org