Bug#631584: Manually fixing "duplicate slave link"

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Sat Jun 25 13:37:20 UTC 2011


On 2011-06-25 10:33, YunQiang Su wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
>> Delete
>>  /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/glx
> I Just only delete the duplicate lines in it.

Probably not a good idea, I don't know the exact format of that file,
but number and position of lines seems to be important.

> Why it happens ? An problem in 0.0.1 ?

A small rename in the slave alternative names between 0.0.1 and 0,1
triggered a bug in dpkg.


Andreas





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