Bug#432597: marked as done (locales depends on package glibc instead of libc6)

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• To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
• Subject: locales depends on package glibc instead of libc6
• From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
• Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:46:33 -0500
• Message-id: <[🔎] 20070710204633.18027.2733.reportbug@haggis.homelan>

Package: locales
Version: 2.5-11
Severity: normal


Depends: glibc-2.5-1, debconf | debconf-2.0

Is Debian in a naming-scheme transition from "libc6" to "glibc"?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.2rlj
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 [glibc-2.5-1]           2.5-11     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

locales recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: None
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: en_US ISO-8859-1

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• To: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>, 432597-done@bugs.debian.org
• Subject: Re: Bug#432597: locales depends on package glibc instead of libc6
• From: "Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk>
• Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:42:35 +0100
• Message-id: <1184103755.17814.12.camel@kaa.jungle.aubergine.my-net-space.net>
• In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20070710204633.18027.2733.reportbug@haggis.homelan>
• References: <[🔎] 20070710204633.18027.2733.reportbug@haggis.homelan>

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 15:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.5-11
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Depends: glibc-2.5-1, debconf | debconf-2.0
> 
> Is Debian in a naming-scheme transition from "libc6" to "glibc"?

No. glibc uses virtual package names (via the use of Provides) to allow
packages to indicate that they require a particular interface version
rather than a specific package version. Other packages, for instance
apt, do similar.

If this were a transition, it would be a rather slow one :-)

adam@kaa:~$ apt-cache show locales | egrep "^(Version|Depends)"
Version: 2.6-1
Depends: glibc-2.6-1, debconf | debconf-2.0
Version: 2.6-0exp3
Depends: glibc-2.5-1, debconf | debconf-2.0
Version: 2.5-11
Depends: glibc-2.5-1, debconf | debconf-2.0
Version: 2.5-9
Depends: glibc-2.5-1, debconf | debconf-2.0
Version: 2.2.5-11.8
Depends: glibc-2.2.5-11.8, debconf (>= 0.2.26)

I'm closing this report as nothing in it appears to be a bug.

Regards,

Adam

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