Bug or no bug, this is the question
Hi dear maintainers,
when I am updating my system, I sometimes get these errors:
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protheus2:/var/cache/apt/archives# LANG=C dpkg -i libc6-i386_2.6-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 234520 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-i386 2.5-11 (using libc6-i386_2.6-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i386 ...
dpkg: error processing libc6-i386_2.6-1_amd64.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32', which is also in package lib32z1
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6-i386_2.6-1_amd64.deb
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O.k., there are some files, who want to be overwritten, and yes, the package
can be installed with the --force-overwrite option.
So, is this a real bug, which should be reported ? I found no option when
using apt to get such a package installed. So I use dpkg.
Anyway, this behaviour appears sometimes, and yes, I am running sid.
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Hans
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