Bug#826290: libc6-i686: Neither "$ aptitude show" or "$ apt-cache show" says libc6-i686 is a virtual package

To: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Cc: 826290@bugs.debian.org, "Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <kingsley@loaner.com>
Subject: Bug#826290: libc6-i686: Neither "$ aptitude show" or "$ apt-cache show" says libc6-i686 is a virtual package
From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 11:59:30 +0200
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Reply-to: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>, 826290@bugs.debian.org
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On 2016-06-04 11:37, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno, on Sat 04 Jun 2016 11:04:03 +0200, wrote:
> > That said I don't know what we can do from the glibc side point of view
> > to change this behavior.
> 
> We could keep a dumb empty lib6-i686 package for the Stretch release?

Wouldn't that just postpone the problem to Stretch? When we really
remove the dummy package, apt and aptitude will still not show it as
virtual.

Aurelien

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