Subject: bug#813: Fwd: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#813: netcat-traditional: Debian Bug#1056980: netcat-traditional: upgrade to 1.10-48 fails (postinst

From: Svante Signell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:28:48 +0100

Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#813: netcat-traditional: Debian Bug#1056980: netcat-traditional: upgrade to 1.10-48 fails (postinst
From: Svante Signell <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:26:47 +0100

On Mon, 2023-12-04 at 08:33 -0500, B Stack wrote:
> Of course this is related to usrmerge in our upstream distro, and is
> solved once you `apt-get install usrmerge` which was blocked for me
> until I also ran:
> 
>     sudo rm -f /lib/udev/rules.d/99-libsane1.rules
> /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules /lib/udev/hwdb.d/20-sane.hwdb
> 
> For some reason. Now of course these steps don't actually fix
> netcat-traditional itself for a non-merged system, but it does allow
> the package to finish installing.

You should not be forced to install usrmerge in a Devuan system. That package
will be forked by Devuan.

FYI: You can always revert the usrmerge installation with dpkg-fsys-usrunmess!