Bug#826290: libc6-i686: Neither "$ aptitude show" or "$ apt-cache show" says libc6-i686 is a virtual package
Aurelien Jarno, on Sat 04 Jun 2016 11:59:30 +0200, wrote:
> 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.
No, but the description of the package will be that it's a dumb package
which can safely removed, not "the standard libraries that are used by
nearly all programs on the system" :)
Samuel
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