Hello,
I try to run testing (upgraded from woody) but with lots of software I
like to install I get:
xmlto: Depends: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-11.5 is to be installed
Depends: xsltproc (>= 1.0.29) but 1.0.16-0.1 is to be installed
Depends: libpaper-utils but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxml2-utils but it is not going to be installed
Especially the "libc6.1" part reappears with a lot of packages. Why do
I see this packages, if I cannot install them? I cannot get a newer
glibc to satisfy this dependency.
Yesterday I came around an example which might explain part of the
problem: dcraw
I got the source, compiled it and tried to install it, however:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1)
helge@sixtyfor:/scratch/build/debian/dcraw-4.88.orig$ apt-cache show libc6
helge@sixtyfor:/scratch/build/debian/dcraw-4.88.orig$ apt-cache show libc6.1
Package: libc6.1
...
helge@sixtyfor:/scratch/build/debian/dcraw-4.88.orig$ dpkg -l libc6.1
...
ii libc6.1 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
Does this dependency have to read:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1) | libc6.1 (>= 2.3.2-1)
Should I fill bugs against such packages?
Is the version numbering for libc6 and libc6.1 the same, i.e. do I have to wait
for libc6.1 2.3.2-1 before I can use dcraw?
(I removed the versioned dependency in this case but have not yet tried
dcraw).
Are these bugs in packages in testing? I though, either I can install
a package including its dependencies, or I should get "Sorry, there
are no newer packages available" which means that the woody version is
the same as the testing one.
Before starting to file bugs I just want to clearify that this not an
oversight on my part.
Greetings
Helge
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