Bug#214468: libc6-dev: does not provide libc-dev

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:58:12AM +0200, Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr wrote:
> Package: libc6-dev
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: experimental
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> here is the problem:
> 
> # apt-get install libncurses5-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libncurses5-dev: Depends: libc-dev
> E: Broken packages
> 
> 
> The root of the problem is that previous versions of libc6-dev contain
> this header:
> 
> Provides: libc-dev
> 
> whereas the exprimental version does not.

Thanks for testing!  I've fixed this in CVS for the next upload.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer