Bug#707185: libc6:amd64 does not replace libc6-amd64; preinst fails

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Control: severity -1 serious

On 2013-05-08 09:37 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2013-05-08 03:32 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> OK, where is /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 pointing?  To ld-2.13.so,
>> which does not exist.
>
> It ought to point at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so,

It does so in the libc6:amd64 package, but installing libc6-amd64
2.13-38 does indeed change the target to ld-2.13.so…

> and that should exist while the libc6:amd64 preinst runs.

…which does no longer exist at that time. :-/

>> This is left over from libc6-amd64, which
>> dpkg has mostly but not entirely removed in preparation for the
>> upgrade that replaces it.
>
> The new version of libc6-amd64 has already been unpacked, but
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 belongs to libc6:amd64 which declares a
> "Replaces: libc6-amd64".

Unfortunately that does not help much because it's ldconfig which
changes the symlink.

>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 7.0
>>   APT prefers unstable
>>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
>> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
>> Foreign Architectures: amd64

If amd64 is the native architecture the problem becomes much worse since
you might not be able to run any programs.  Hence I'm bumping the
severity.

Cheers,
       Sven