For anyone finding this after the fact.
I had to remove dpkg-fsys-usrunmess.
Use aptitude because apt's crap resolver won't do it.
aptitude --allow-remove-essential install usrmerge
aptitude remove dpkg-fsys-usrunmess
Then I manually (with a script) had to delete a bunch of duplicated
files, because I had older files in /lib and newer ones in /usr/lib.
This is the script, don't run it blindly
while /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge 2>&1 | grep Both | cut -d\
-fusrmerge; do
/usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge 2>&1 | grep Both | cut -d\ -f 4
rm $(/usr/lib/usrmerge /convert-usrmerge 2>&1 | grep Both | cut -d\ -f 4)
done
After this, I could run again
aptitude install usrmerge
After this, the system seems in an upgradable state again.
--
Salvo Tomaselli
"Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di
senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno."
-- Galileo Galilei
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