Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: Alphas and libc dependencies"):
...
> In addition to my last message, here is an alternative I've just though
> of. Why don't we just provide dummy (eg empty) libc5, libdb1 etc
> packages, and let libc6 depend on them. Then libc5 etc _will_ be
> installed..
> 
> I think that's what I'll do until Ian has implemented version numbers
> for virtual packages (if that's a reasonable solution that is).

Well, it's not ideal - in particular, it means that you can deinstall
libc6 when you clearly ought not to.

How about doing it the other way around - having an empty libc5
package which depends on libc6 ?  This is obviously a bit of a nasty
hack, but it will have the right effect.

Ian.