request: electricsheep 2.6.3

[John Dong]

It's a cross-release conflict... xscreensaver in Breezy doesn't contain 
electricsheep... and backporting the entire xscreensaver chain is probably 
hopeless...

It seems like we should take this package out of backports...

On 9/9/05, Brian Gurtler <brian at gurtler.net> wrote:
> 
> I've reported the bug to xscreensaver and they said that it's a
> backports issue
> http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13299
> 
> John Dong wrote:
> 
> > Use dpkg --install --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives
> > /electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb to install the package.
> >
> > Unfortunately, two different versions of Electricsheep are present in
> > two package (xscreensaver and electricsheep) -- APT doesn't like to
> > assume that you'd want to overwrite existing files, so drops out at
> > this error.
> >
> > this is an upstream packaging bug that can't be solved via the
> > Backports team. If it really bothers you, file a bug against either
> > electricsheep or xscreensaver in Ubuntu's Bugzilla.
> >
> >
> > On 9/9/05, *Brian Gurtler* <brian at gurtler.net
> > <mailto:brian at gurtler.net>> wrote:
> >
> > could someone do a backport of this?
> > the version currently in backports [2.6.2] hasn't ever worked do
> > to some
> > kind of error..
> >
> > Unpacking electricsheep (from
> > .../electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb
> > (--unpack):
> > trying to overwrite
> > `/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/electricsheep.xml',
> > which is also in package xscreensaver
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
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