Bug#492958: libc6: fails to install if nspluginwrapper is installed

[Stephane List <slist@lilotux.net>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5
Severity: important


Hi,

it's not impossible to update libc6 on x86_64 if nspluginwrapper is
installed :


apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libc6
	Suggested packages:
	  glibc-doc
		The following packages will be upgraded:
		  libc6
			1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
			2 not fully installed or removed.
			Need to get 0B/4183kB of archives.
			After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
			Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
			(Reading database ... 143375 files and directories currently
			installed.)
			Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 (using
			.../libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch7_amd64.deb) ...
			Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
			dpkg: error processing
			/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch7_amd64.deb
			(--unpack):
			 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package
			 nspluginwrapper
			 Errors were encountered while processing:
			  /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.6.ds1-13etch7_amd64.deb
				E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Regards

Stephane

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  tzdata                      2007k-1etch1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time

libc6 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information