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Bug#308824: tight versioned dependencies between locales and glibc cause problems



Package: glibc
Severity: normal

Every time a new glibc is uploaded that has a locales with a dependency
on exactly that version of glibc, installs of unstable on every
architecture are broken until the autobuilder catches up and builds
glibc. Installs fail with errors like these:

locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.2.ds1-22 which is a virtual package.

(Currently failing like this on sparc, alpha, hppa, ...)

This is because locales is arch all so it is available in unstable
immediatly on all architectures, while the virtual package is provided
by an arch any package which has to autobuild. 

This is really annoying if you're working on the debian installation on
any of these architectures, since a new glibc upload can stall any useful
testing of unstable installs for days at a time.

Can you please try to find a solution to this? Making locales arch any
would be one solution.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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see shy jo

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