Bug#35113: libc6-dev: not able to compile itself with headers in this package

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Joel Klecker wrote:
> The real error is that I made a typo and wasn't actually calling my 
> checkheaders function, which would have made the configure target 
> fail when the kernel-headers-2.2.1 package is not installed.
> The only autobuilder I happen to be concerned with is buildd, which 
> can handle this with its source depends.

So what exactly is the point ofd requiring kernel-headers-2.2.1 when
libc6-dev already has 2.2.1 kernel headers in it?

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