#1121655 update-alternatives: error: alternative wineserver.1.gz can't be slave of wine.collection

Package:
libwine
Source:
libwine
Description:
Windows API implementation - library
Submitter:
Geoff
Date:
2025-12-03 20:43:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1121655#5
Date:
2025-11-30 02:27:34 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Upgrading Sid today and got these errors:

Processing triggers for libwine:amd64 (10.0~repack-12) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative wineserver.1.gz can't be slave of wine.collection: it is a slave of wine
dpkg: error processing package libwine:amd64 (--configure):
 installed libwine:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for libwine:i386 (10.0~repack-12) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative wineserver.1.gz can't be slave of wine.collection: it is a slave of wine
dpkg: error processing package libwine:i386 (--configure):
 installed libwine:i386 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libwine:amd64
 libwine:i386

I've had to remove both packages for now to get apt to complete the update.
#1121655#10
Date:
2025-12-03 20:41:49 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

Purging all wine packages and reinstalling only amd64 package resolved the issue for me.