Bug#167409: glibc 2.3.1: breaks XEmacs builds; system breaks on revert to 2.2.5
Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> wrote:
> You need to downgrade everything that depends on the new libc before
> downgrading libc itself. dpkg should have told you this when you were
> doing the downgrade (IIRC it should have required some explicit
> cooercion to do the downgrade).
1. dpkg does --force-downgrade by default
2. dpkg will let you break the depenedencies of packages that are already
installed
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