Subject: bug#732: Every update kills system as library is not in /lib

From: Klaus Ethgen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 11:13:31 +0100

Package: libpcre2-8-0
Version: 10.42-1
Severity: critical

Since libpcre2-8-0 was moved to /usr by debian, every update kills my
whole system as nearly everything is depending on that library.

Every other library can be managed via dpkg-divert but not libpcre2-8-0.

So after every update, my system is unusable and unbootable until I boot
a rescue system and manually move everything from
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so* to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/. Also
apt broke in the middle as also apt and dpkg depending on libpcre2-8-0
and the update procedure breaks symlinks in /lib.

Please move libpcre2-8-0 back to /lib where it belongs to.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)
Release:	5
Codename:	daedalus ceres
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.16.17 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libpcre2-8-0 depends on:
ii  libc6  2.36-7

libpcre2-8-0 recommends no packages.

libpcre2-8-0 suggests no packages.

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