Hi Vincent, just for the record this was fixed in the version I just uploaded
5.10-2.
Regards.
-Original Message-
From: Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.org
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:46:20
To: Debian Bug Tracking Systemsub...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#548385: xscreensaver-data installation fails (trying to overwrite
file from gnome-screensaver)
Package: xscreensaver-data
Version: 5.05-3+nmu1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I get the following error:
# apt-get install xscreensaver-data
[...]
Preparing to replace xscreensaver-data 5.05-3+nmu1 (using
.../xscreensaver-data_5.10-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xscreensaver-data ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/xscreensaver-data_5.10-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/screensavers/popsquares.desktop',
which is also in package gnome-screensaver 0:2.26.1-1
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xscreensaver-data_5.10-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xscreensaver-data depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.0-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.0-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-15 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libsm62:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt61:1.0.6-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
xscreensaver-data recommends no packages.
xscreensaver-data suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
