Dear Maintainer, On upgrading Alpha system with the package libc6.1-alphaev67 installed when installing usrmerge the following occurred: Setting up usrmerge (35) ... cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/lib/alpha-linux-gnu/ev67/libc.so.6.1': No such file or directory FATAL ERROR: cp --no-dereference --preserve=all --reflink=auto --sparse=always /lib/alpha-linux-gnu/ev67/libc.so.6.1 /usr/lib/alpha-linux-gnu/ev67/libc.so.6.1: rc=1 You can try correcting the errors reported and running again /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge until it will complete without errors. Do not install or update other Debian packages until the program has been run successfully. E: usrmerge failed. dpkg: error processing package usrmerge (--configure): installed usrmerge package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: usrmerge On examining the directory /usr/lib/alpha-linux-gnu/ I see ev4 and ev5 directories but no ev67 directory. Presumably the copy of the ev67 tuned libc6.1 library failed because the target directory did not exist. I manually made the ev67 directory in /usr/lib/alpha-linux-gnu/ and reran the usrmerge installation and it then completed successfully. Regards, Michael.
Control: tag -1 help I cannot find an alpha porterbox, but anyway it is really hard to debug convert-usrmerge without being able to test it in a chroot over and over. I will be happy to consider merging a patch, as long as it will be obvious that it does not affect release architectures: usrmerge is frozen, work on merged-/usr started in 2014 and porters should really have tested this a few years ago.
Dear submitter, as the package usrmerge has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1088212 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)