Bug#904486: glx-alternative-mesa: upgrading glx-alternative-mesa to 0.8.5 fails because of /usr/lib/mesa-diverted doesn't exist

[Thomas Krutz]

Package: glx-alternative-mesa
Version: 0.8.5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

today i updated to glx-alternative-mesa 0.8.5 and 
it fails because of the following error:

Setting up glx-alternative-mesa (0.8.5) ...
Processing triggers for glx-alternative-mesa (0.8.5) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/mesa-diverted doesn't exist
dpkg: error processing package glx-alternative-mesa (--configure):
 installed glx-alternative-mesa package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 glx-alternative-mesa
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

this is a intel only system...

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-- Package-specific info:
Diversions:


Alternative 'glx':


File System:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 May 30 09:09 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.7.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 390680 May 30 09:09 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.7.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 May 30 09:09 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.7.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 567624 May 30 09:09 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.7.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285728 Jul  1 19:07 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages glx-alternative-mesa depends on:
ii  dpkg        1.19.0.5+b1
ii  update-glx  0.8.5

Versions of packages glx-alternative-mesa recommends:
pn  glx-diversions  <none>

Versions of packages glx-alternative-mesa suggests:
ii  libgl1           1.0.0+git20180308-3
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx  18.1.4-1

Versions of packages glx-alternative-mesa is related to:
ih  glx-alternative-mesa           0.8.5
pn  glx-alternative-nvidia         <none>
ii  libgl1                         1.0.0+git20180308-3
pn  libgl1-dev                     <none>
pn  libgl1-nvidia-glx-any          <none>
pn  nvidia-glx-any                 <none>
pn  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-any  <none>

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