Philip Blundell wrote:
Cool, it's back now, thanks! Should have thought of that of course... I didn't need to remove any directories, "ls /usr/include/asm" returned "No such file or directory."On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 19:58, Adam C Powell IV wrote:Just got and reinstalled the deb, it's still an empty directory. Any ideas?Try uninstalling libc6-dev, deleting the empty directories, and reinstalling the package. I don't know how the situation arose in the first place, though - might be a dpkg bug.
It's odd though that reinstalling it didn't fix the problem. Is that alone worth filing a dpkg bug? I guess that goes through remove and install; this time I did purge and install. Nope, --remove and --install clears the dir and reinstates the symlink. It's repeatable: if I remove the symlink and make a dir, and try to install over the old one, it leaves the dir, no symlink!
This must have been the problem: I created the chroot by upgrading a potato tarball to unstable about two months ago.
Hmm, no matching existing bugs against dpkg, I think I'll file one, and close this one against libc6-dev.
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