Bug#708040: closed by Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (Re: Bug#708040: libgl1-mesa-dri: uninstallable)

[Rémi Vanicat <remi.vanicat@gmail.com>]

owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:

kibi@debian.org (Cyril Brulebois) writes:
> Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it> (12/05/2013):
> > Package: libgl1-mesa-dri
> > Version: 8.0.5-4+b1
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> No. dpkg is buggy and doesn't allow for coinstallability of binNMU'd
> packages. libgl1-mesa-dri itself is installable.

I understand that it is link to a bug in dpkg, but today,
libgl1-mesa-dri and some other package are uninstallable on some
system. I so believe that the bug should remain open (at least to let
apt-listbugs warn its user that the might have difficulties with this).

@Salvo: running 
  dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_8.0.5-4+b1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_8.0.5-4+b1_amd64.deb

should fix your problem. There will probably be other conflict that will
need similar forcing to 
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Rémi Vanicat