Hello. Thanks a lot for the report. I'm hereby forwarding it to Helmut Grohne, who did the latest usrmerge changes.
I see "Foreign Architectures: i386", maybe that could be a factor for this problem to be more likely to happen. Also, I wonder if running unstable and not upgrading in a long time, given the t64 transition which has not finished yet, could be slightly more dangerous than upgrading to the testing of the day first (in a similar way that we do not support upgrades which skip releases, like buster to bookworm, or bullseye to trixie). Thanks. -------- Mensaje reenviado -------- Asunto: Bug#1076491: base-files: file clash with libc6 Fecha: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:46:14 +0200 De: Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]> Responder a: Oswald Buddenhagen <[email protected]>, [email protected] Para: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Package: base-files Version: 13.3 Severity: important while upgrading the system after a rather long time, this happened: # apt dist-upgrade ... Unpacking base-files (13.3) over (13) ... dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-fU8xAF/12-base-files_13.3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/lib64', which is also in package libc6:amd64 2.37-12 Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-fU8xAF/12-base-files_13.3_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) notably, it didn't try to unpack libc6 first. when i tried that manually, i got this: # dpkg -i base-files_13.3_amd64.deb libc6_2.39-4_* (Reading database ... 362942 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack base-files_13.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking base-files (13.3) over (13) ... dpkg: error processing archive base-files_13.3_amd64.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/lib64', which is also in package libc6:amd64 2.37-12 dpkg: regarding libc6_2.39-4_amd64.deb containing libc6:amd64: libc6:amd64 breaks base-files (<< 13.3~) base-files (version 13) is present and installed. dpkg: error processing archive libc6_2.39-4_amd64.deb (--install): installing libc6:amd64 would break base-files, and deconfiguration is not permitted (--auto-deconfigure might help) dpkg: regarding libc6_2.39-4_i386.deb containing libc6:i386: libc6:i386 breaks base-files (<< 13.3~) base-files (version 13) is present and installed. with the suggested switch, a few more packages, and a temporarily inoperable system (due to missing /lib64), i got out of it, but this obviously isn't the way to go. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386
