Solution to Critical dependancy problem in potato: libc6-dev

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

hello,

 I originally posted the message below.....but I found out the
 solution to the problem, it's not your package, but I don't
know who else to send this to.  the new version of potato has
apt-get set up (in /etc/apt/sources.list )to fetch from:
                               http.us.debian.org debian dists **stable**
....
it should be:             http.us.debian.org debian dists **potato**....

this small error makes apt-get pretty much useless for the
new potato, unless you catch that error

thanks

Chris Tilden


----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Blumel <elphfves@earthlink.net>
To: <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 12:23 PM
Subject: Critical dependancy problem in potato: libc6-dev


> 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? :)
>