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Re: problems upgrading stable libc6 to unstable libc6



Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:

> when I tried to upgrade libc6 with apt-get 0.5.3, I encountered a

> Preparing to replace libdb2 2:2.4.14-2.7.7.1.c (using .../libdb2_2%3a2.7.7-7_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libdb2 ...
> Replacing files in old package libc6 ...

At this point anything that's linked against the libraries in libdb2 are
broken as the new libc6 hasn't been unpacked yet.

> Preparing to replace libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-0.010407_i386.deb) ...
> /usr/bin/perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3)
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /usr/bin/perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3)
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-0.010407_i386.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

The breakage shows up here.

Looks like we need a predependency in libdb2 on the new libc6.
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