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

[Russ Allbery]

Marvin Renich <mrvn at renich.org> 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 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-glx before installing the new legacy packages,
the right thing would have happened, but I realize that's very inobvious
going in.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>