USN-186-1 (mozilla, mozilla-firefox) updates broken on Hoary

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Andrew, hi backporters, hi James!

Andrew Pam [2005-09-24 21:50 +1000]:
> The USN-186-1 (mozilla, mozilla-firefox) updates are broken on Hoary:
> 
> Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox 1.0.6-1ubuntu1~5.04ubp1 (using
> .../mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement mozilla-firefox ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic',
> which is also in package firefox

The security update is fine, the problem is that you use backports,
which are screwed up in Hoary. They renamed the package
"mozilla-firefox" to "firefox" without doing a proper transition, so
you now ended up with having both packages installed, which is bogus.

It would be best to remove firefox from hoary-backports entirely and
just use hoary-security, IMHO.

All hoary users with broken installations have to clean up manually:

  sudo aptitude purge firefox
  sudo apt-get install --reinstall mozilla-firefox

should help. Backporters, if you want to fix this as well, you need to
upload an empty transition firefox package which just depends on
firefox.

Thanks,

Martin
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Ubuntu Developer   http://www.ubuntu.com
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