Bug#722217: legacy304 also

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> writes:
> On 2013-12-19 14:50, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote:

>> I am running legacy304, so it is not just legacy173.

> I cannot reproduce any of these bugs in chroots ...

> Did anyone investigate what is failing in the preinst?
> Inserting 'set -x' instead of 'exit 0' into the preinst would be more
> helpful to debug this.

> There must be something being run from the libc6 preinst that
> (indirectly) links against libGL ... otherwise I see no way how to
> segfault in libnvidia-tls

> update-alternatives --confix glx

> and selecting mesa-diverted should allow the upgrade to succeed,
> afterwards run it once more and select auto again ...

What version of dpkg are you using?  Could it be this problem?

dpkg (1.17.5) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Guillem Jover ]
[...]
  * Fix segfault in update-alternatives when adding or renaming slaves for
    an existing alternative. Regression introduced in dpkg 1.17.2.
    Closes: #731710

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