Re: AMD64 debian testing upgrade failed.

I demand that David L. Johnson may or may not have written...

I have an amd64 machine which I have been using with debian testing
(currently lenny) for over a year now. I have been upgrading regularly;
possibly the last time was a month ago. No problems then.

Then, last night, I did apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade. Things
downloaded, then:

Preparing to replace libc6-i386 2.5-9 (using
.../libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i386 ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32', which is also in package lib32z1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb

Either of these, followed by the usual "apt-get update", should work:

# dpkg --remove --force-depends lib32z1
# dpkg --install --force-depends /var/cache/apt/archives/lib32z1_1%3a1.2.3.3.dfsg-5_amd64.deb

There will almost certainly be brokenness resulting from that, but it should
be fixed automatically on update by reinstalling that package or as a
side-effect of the upgrade of other packages.

(I think that the problem's due to a missing versioned Conflicts:.)

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