[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#752383: ia32-libs: Install silently does not overwrite old /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 symbolic link

[Clinton Mead]

Package: ia32-libs
Version: 1:0.4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I have previously installed the nVidia drivers directly from nVidia. I believe
(but am not certain) that they created /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 as a symbolic link
to /usr/lib32/libGL.so.173.14.09. This seems to link to libGLcore.so.1, which
does not exist on the 304 series of drivers.

The ia32-libs file should probably overwrite this symbolic link, or perhaps
alert the user that it exists and error, instead it just silently doesn't
overwrite and instead leaves the old driver.

Removing the symbolic link and reinstalling ia32-libs fixed the problem, but
only after many hours of debugging.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ia32-libs depends on:
ii  ia32-libs-i386     1:0.4
ii  multiarch-support  2.13-38+deb7u1

ia32-libs recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ia32-libs suggests:
ii  ia32-libs-gtk  1:0.1

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