ubuntu-x-swat team mailing list archive

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since lzma is an essential command, other packages do not wait for the
package providing it to be unpacked or configured to use it. So just as
you wrote, while xz-utils is replacing lzma it does not work. For this
reason, apt-get does not even allow such an installation (but aptitude
does).

The long-term fix is to stop making dpkg depend on lzma, after which
lzma will no longer be essential. See <http://bugs.debian.org/547802>.

In the short term, xz-utils should stop providing the lzma command, so
xz-utils can be installed without removing lzma. This is what the Debian
package does. Please sync when you get a chance --- the version in
testing addresses several serious bugs from the experimental version you
are using.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #547802
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547802

-- 
Can't be installed at the same time as xz-utils
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474024
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X,
which is subscribed to mesa in ubuntu.