So today, Debsecan warns me about this issue:
CVE-2010-0015 nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc...
<http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2010-0015>
- locales, libc6 (remotely exploitable, medium urgency)
And I figure, it's a good time to upgrade locales. Apt-get upgrade doesn't
think this needs to be upgraded, so I manually remove it and then try to
reinstall it.
Except it doesn't reinstall - I just get this error:
# apt-get install locales
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
locales: Depends: glibc-2.7-1
E: Broken packages
Apparently, glibc-2.7-1 is a dummy package, one which I can't install.
What do I do about this? I have perl scripts complaining loudly about the
lack of Locale.