Bug#58691: This can be closed (Re: Upgrading libc6 fails with tetex-bin installed)

[Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>]

Hi.

 | From: Torsten Landschoff <torsten@pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de>
 | 
 | Package: libc6
 | Severity: critical
 | Version: 2.1.3-4
 | 
 | Hi Joel,
 | 
 | Sorry, but I have to tell you that the libc6 in frozen just broke during
 | an upgrade. The problem lies in the new preinst that checks for /etc/localtime
 | being a link and uses readlink to follow that link.
 | 
 | Now we have 2 readlink binaries in Debian - debianutils has /bin/readlink
 | and tetex-bin /usr/bin/readlink. In my case the /usr/bin readlink was
 | invoked resulting in an error (that readlink takes exactly one argument).

 tetex-bin already removes /usr/bin/readlink.

 Quoted from /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/changelog.Debian.gz:

tetex-bin (1.0.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * remove readlink from tetex-bin. It is now in debianutils (closes:
    Bug#51433) 

And current tetex-bin (1.0.6-3) does not have /usr/bin/readlink.

So the current state of the art does not have this bug, and this 
report can be closed or downgraded, I think. 
 (I don't do it since Joel is the maintainer.)

But I don't know people may have problems when upgrading from slink
to potato. If so, there should be some workaround for this, or at least
some caution in release notes.

Regards.

-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>