Bug#53894: Critical dependancy problem in potato: libc6-dev

["Richard Blumel" <elphfves@earthlink.net>]

Package: libc6-dev
Version: 2.0.7-6

 Hello,

I just want to let you folks know, that I feel that Debian is *the* best
GNU/Linux
around.  I really **love** apt-get and it normally works without a hitch,
but I recently
ran into a problem.  Any help would greatly appreciated.  thanks.

 I installed potato ver. 2.2 on my new system.  when I try to apt-get
install libc6-dev
it gives me dependency problems because libc6-dev is for an older version of
 libc6 (i think).

the error message I get is:
    the following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libc6-dev: depends: libc6 (= 2.0.7.19981211-6) but 2.1.2-10 is to be
installed
    E: sorry, broken packages

I did     dpkg --list libc6         and i get version 2.1.2-10 for libc6.


this is a big problem because I cant compile anything without
 libc6-dev and I can't down-grade libc6 because everything depends upon it.
 also, many other packages (all X stuff) won't work without libc6-dev.  what
 should I do?  if you could respond with a solution to my problem that would
 be great.

Thanks for any advice.

Chris Tilden

 PS- if the package needs to be updated will it be soon? :)