Bug#857954: libdevmapper-dev: broken symlink: /usr/lib/<triplet>/libdevmapper-event-lvm2.so -> /lib/<triplet>/libdevmapper-event-lvm2.so.2.02

[August Karlstrom]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:29:24 +0100 Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:11:00PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > The broken symlink has returned:
> 
> Ah, yes.  But please describe why this is a problem.

Because it breaks the upgrade to Debian 9.3:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64 (4.9.65-3) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-4-amd64
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error while loading shared libraries: 
libdevmapper.so.1.02.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
directory
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub exited with return code 127
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


-- August