Am 15.02.20 um 19:48 schrieb Sven Joachim: > True, but there seem to be a relatively high number of systems where an > old unowned version of some library is lying around under /lib (possibly > because the dpkg database became corrupted at some point and so dpkg > forgot about the file; see the dpkg bug #949395), and when that library > starts be installed under /usr/lib, this will trigger symbol lookup > errors and the like. See #896019 and #948318 for examples.
While I think the underlying issue should be investigated (tbh the thought that dpkg get's confused / its db corrupted so does not properly clean up those old files is quite disconcerting), couldn't we just switch the order of /lib and /usr/lib and make /usr/lib the preferred path?
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