Bug#707185: libc6:amd64 does not replace libc6-amd64; preinst fails
On 2013-05-08 10:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
>
> On 2013-05-08 09:37 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2013-05-08 03:32 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> 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.
That has already been noticed before in #699206. Additional note:
Uninstalling libc6-amd64 removes the /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 symlink
completely. :-(
>>> -- 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.
I'll leave it to the maintainers if they want to merge this bug with
#699206 and what severity they deem appropriate.
Cheers,
Sven
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