This server (or say workstation) is pretty complicated. I run some multimedia tools under command line, and also installed wine32 to support running some 32-bit windows cli tools. The system was installed as jessie and recently upgraded to stretch. I'm guessing that i386 multi arch plus upgrading caused the issue, as my solution was actually removing the glx-diversions:i386 package, which is a very edge case for the system.
But from a user point of view, I'd say that, a library file will be missing unless a package is removed, is not an expected behavior. Generally I would accept 2 solutions, either *requires* one of these packages instead of *suggests*, or keep the links of those libraries untouched until we do have an alternative installed. Since it's really an edge case, I'll not push you on this. But if someone else hits the same problem, at least this thread will provide a clue. Thanks 2015-12-08 12:21 GMT-05:00 Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>: > On 2015-12-08 00:19, Xinyue Lu wrote: >> I spend some time investigating this issues. >> >> It turns out glx-alternative-{...} is not installed. That's why when I >> remove glx-diversions the file went back. > > How did you get into this situation in the first place? > >> $ sudo aptitude install glx-diversions --without-recommends > > It that is the only way to reproduce this, I won't consider this as a bug. > > Andreas
