Bug#596843: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#596843: unable to purge after replacing nvidia-glx with nvidia-glx-legacy

2010-09-20 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On Tuesday, 14. September 2010 20:31:43 Marvin Renich wrote: > * Russ Allbery [100914 13:09]: > > Yeah, unfortunately this is a bug in the old nvidia-glx, which makes it > > rather hard to fix. It was incorrectly trying to clean up diversions on > > postrm purge as well. I'm not sure there's any

Bug#596843: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#596843: unable to purge after replacing nvidia-glx with nvidia-glx-legacy

2010-09-14 Thread Marvin Renich
* Russ Allbery [100914 13:09]: > Yeah, unfortunately this is a bug in the old nvidia-glx, which makes it > rather hard to fix. It was incorrectly trying to clean up diversions on > postrm purge as well. I'm not sure there's any good way to fix this > retroactively. > > If you'd upgraded nvidia-

Bug#596843: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#596843: unable to purge after replacing nvidia-glx with nvidia-glx-legacy

2010-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Marvin Renich writes: > After installing the new nvidia-glx-legacy and removing, but not > purging, nvidia-glx, you can no longer purge nvidia-glx. dpkg fails in > the postrm attempting to remove diversions that no longer exist: Yeah, unfortunately this is a bug in the old nvidia-glx, which mak

Bug#596843: unable to purge after replacing nvidia-glx with nvidia-glx-legacy

2010-09-14 Thread Marvin Renich
Package: nvidia-glx Severity: normal After installing the new nvidia-glx-legacy and removing, but not purging, nvidia-glx, you can no longer purge nvidia-glx. dpkg fails in the postrm attempting to remove diversions that no longer exist: - r...@monstro:~# dpkg -P nvidia-glx (Reading database