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Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues

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On 2020-01-20 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.19.7
> Severity: normal
> Tags: unreproducible

> Maintainers have seen bugs in various packages where an old file (one
> that was shipped in an old .deb, but not under the same name in a new
> .deb) appears to have been retained on-disk rather than deleted. At some
> later time, perhaps months or years later, that file causes an upgrade
> failure triggered by the superseding file moving from one directory in
> a search path to another.
[...]

Hello,

I have got another instance in libgcrypt20
<https://bugs.debian.org/984884> but the actual error (leaving files
behind) happened ages ago; the leftovers are from pre-stretch versions
of libgcrypt.

These leftovers trigger an error now, because the library has moved from
/lib to /usr/lib in buster and ldconfig activates both the leftover and
the proper copy (by adding libgcrypt.so.20 symlinks). /lib has the
higher priority and wins.

cu Andreas
-- 
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are
so grateful to you.'
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Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2021-09-11 18:10 +0200
  Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 19:30 +0200
    Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2021-09-12 15:00 +0200
      Bug#949395: dpkg: Old packaged files not always removed, causing various issues Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 16:20 +0200

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