request: electricsheep 2.6.3

[Brian Gurtler]

noted.
thanks.

Martin Meredith wrote:

>Please see my comment attached to the bug
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>Brian Gurtler wrote:
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>>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
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>>John Dong wrote:
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>>>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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