Debian Testing Upgrade Problem (amd64)

Mon Nov 22 20:52:45 UTC 2010

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 02:59:49PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> The "correct" answer doesn't work.  Removing the now-unneeded package
> does not unwedge the system.  The actual correct answer is for the
> testers in experimental and unstable to report the conflict and set the
> rules to sort it out - they didn't and now someone has to report a
> method which works.
> 
> The other correct answer is to live in a work without Flash - but the
> web is not yet in that world.  As soon as I can use the video sites
> without Flash, I will uninstall it.

Given ia32-libs-workaround-499043 isn't a debian package, it really
isn't debian's problem to fix.

It was how I updated my system and I used to have that hack installed.
Removing it did in fact unwedge the system just fine.

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Len Sorensen
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