Bug#533773: /usr/lib32 transition broken

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Package: libc6-i386
Version: 2.9-17
Severity: grave

Hi,

you actually managed to completly screw the pooch with the /usr/lib32
transition from link to directory and now on existing installations it
remains a link. Now /emul/ia32-linux/[usr/]lib contains files that
belong there and files belonging in /[usr/]lib32 making it hard to
undo the link.

So now you need something like this in postinst:

if [ "$(readlink /lib32)" = "/emul/ia32-linux/lib" ]; then
  rm /lib32
  mv /emul/ia32-linux/lib /lib32
  ln -s /lib32 /emul/ia32-linux/lib
fi

if [ "$(readlink /usr/lib32)" = "/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib" ]; then
  rm /usr/lib32
  mv /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib /usr/lib32
  ln -s /usr/lib32 /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib
fi

And what fun if a filesystem gets full doing that.

MfG
	Goswin

PS: Why wasn't this prepared in experimental?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers transitional-i386
  APT policy: (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'transitional'), (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'unstable-i386'), (1, 'experimental-i386'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.4-frosties-1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libc6-i386 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-17     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libc6-i386 recommends no packages.

libc6-i386 suggests no packages.

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