Bug#212353: libc6.1-dev: please stop providing "libc6-dev"

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

I don't mind providing libc6-dev for libc0.3-deb.  I think the right
solution is to drop the provides completely.  The former we can do now,
the latter we cannot consider until after Sarge releases.

Do you mind holding off until December for this?

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:09:41PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Do you have any comments on this bug:
> 
>   #212353: libc6.1-dev: please stop providing "libc6-dev"
> 
> It'd get rid of the annoying problem with packages that assume libc6. Otherwise
> we could provide libc6-dev in libc0.3-dev, too.
> 
> It's not fair that libc6.1-dev can be hacked to provide libc6-dev but
> libc0.3-dev cannot, so we need to change something here.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Millan
> 
> "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
> thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
> gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
> 
>  -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)