Bug#1023124: How i fixed my system

[Salvo Tomaselli]

For anyone finding this after the fact.

I had to remove dpkg-fsys-usrunmess.

Use aptitude because apt's crap resolver won't do it.

aptitude --allow-remove-essential  install usrmerge
aptitude  remove dpkg-fsys-usrunmess

Then I manually (with a script) had to delete a bunch of duplicated
files, because I had older files in /lib and newer ones in /usr/lib.

This is the script, don't run it blindly

while /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge 2>&1 | grep Both | cut -d\
-fusrmerge; do
    /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge 2>&1  | grep Both | cut -d\   -f 4
    rm $(/usr/lib/usrmerge /convert-usrmerge 2>&1  | grep Both | cut -d\   -f 4)
done

After this, I could run again

aptitude install  usrmerge

After this, the system seems in an upgradable state again.

--
Salvo Tomaselli

"Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di
senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno."
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