Bug#541077: [libc6] FTBFS of other packages due to missing /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.shlibs

[Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.9-24
Severity: grave

I tried to rebuild some packages and they all fail with
 dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /lib/libc.so.6

ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.shlibs
 ls: cannot access /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.shlibs: No such file or directory

Other packages are also missing these files. Maybe it is a dpkg related 
problem... but I haven't updated dpkg since a month or so. Also coreutils 
hasn't been updated since two months or so. The only package related to dpkg 
seems to be libc6. A downgrade to libc6-2.9-23 seems to fixed that problem. 
All packages I have installed after downgrading to 2.9-23 also got there 
.shlibs back.


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.31-rc5

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 unstable        ftp.debian.org 
    1 experimental    ftp.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends       (Version) | Installed
=======================-+-===========
libc-bin     (= 2.9-24) | 2.9-24
libgcc1                 | 1:4.4.1-1


Recommends      (Version) | Installed
=========================-+-===========
libc6-i686                | 


Suggests         (Version) | Installed
==========================-+-===========
glibc-doc                  | 
debconf                    | 1.5.27
 OR debconf-2.0            | 
locales                    | 2.9-24