Bug#433500: libc6-dev uninstallable

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 06:04:17PM +0100, Claudio Saavedra wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:48 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>>>   linux-kernel-headers does not exists, you have to install
>>> linux-libc-dev now. Maybe sth is not resolved properly by your apt for
>>> one reason or the other, but the package is definitely installable on
>>> my
>>> machine.
>> Installed linux-libc-dev which uninstalled linux-kernel-headers.
>> However, libc6-dev is still not installable. Reason: no installation
>> candidate.
> 
> ┌─(19:25)────
> └[artemis] apt-cache policy libc6-dev
> libc6-dev:
>   Installed: 2.6-2
>   Candidate: 2.6-2
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.6-2 0
>         500 ftp://mad sid/main Packages
>         500 ftp://mad lenny/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      2.3.6.ds1-13 0
>         500 ftp://mad etch/main Packages
> 
>   Again, it works here, I have a libc6-dev. I don't know what you did with
> your system, but the problem is definitely on _your_ end. You may have
> hold a package, or tweaked /etc/apt/preferences I don't know, but as you
> can see, there _is_ a libc6-dev and it's installed here.

Maybe Claudio is working on alpha or ia64, then he has to install libc6.1-dev
instead (or use libc-dev to have no problem on any platform)?

Cheers

Luk