On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:08:39PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > [ CC'd to -devel for wider input.... ] > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:12:24PM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > Package: fidelio > > Version: N/A; reported 2000-12-05 > > Severity: normal > > > > fidelio 0.9.5-1 depends at the same time in the X 3.3.6 libc5 libs and in the > > X 4.0.1 libc6 libs. Is it compiled with libc5 or libc6? XF3 or XF4? > > The system it was compiled on is a libc6, XF4 system. However, this > system began life as a pre-freeze (read: unstable) Potato, and has > been through many `apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade' cycles. > > I would guess that the "confusion" stems from both xlib6 (>= 3.3.6-4) > and xlibs (>= 4.0.1-1) being listed in the Depends: field. Well, they > are both installed on my development box. So, the dependency is correct, > from my point of view.... Not exactly. There was a recent epidemic of frivilous libc5/xlib6 dependencies due to a bug in dpkg. Upgrade dpkg to the version in woody and this problem should be resolved.
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