Re: Odd dependancy situation with libc6 and libc6-dev
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I'd had the latest hamm versions of libc6 and libc6-dev (2.0.7t-1)
> > installed. I installed the slink version of libc6 (2.0.7u-2) without a
> > hitch. But then I realized I should have been forced to upgrade
> > libc6-dev at the same time!
>
> FWIW, I ran into the exact same thing today and apt corrected it.
Be careful with 2.0.7u, it has a broken resolver.
>
> > How can this be? How can libc6-dev still be installed and depend on
> > libc6 (= 2.0.7t-1) ?
>
> I don't know. :-(
It is a known bug in the dependency handling of dpkg.
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