Bug#326791: install of libc6 wants to remove all kernels
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-21
Severity: normal
The bug report refers to the packet libc6. When installing newer version
of libc6 the apt system tries to uninstall all kernels. See the
following example:
# apt-get install libc6
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6-dev locales
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc manpages-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386 kernel-image-2.6.10-1-k7
kernel-image-2.6.11-1-k7
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6 libc6-dev locales
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 827 not
upgraded.
Need to get 11.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 119MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
As you can see from the example the install tries to uninstall
initrd-tools and all installed kernels. This makes that I cannot upgrade
some other packages that depend on a newer version of libc6.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
libc6 recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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