Bug#975052: libc6: Reinstalling all packages with "aptitude reinstall ~i" fails because libc6 is not configured yet

[Markus <steinko@mail.de>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.31-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
When trying to reinstall all packages with "sudo aptitude reinstall ~i", dpkg
tells that libc6:amd64 is not configured yet which leads to dependency issues
and unconfigured packages for other packages because libc6:amd64 is not
configured.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I tried reinstalling libc6 with sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6 and
restart the needed services with the "needrestart" package installed. I tried
reinstalling any package that showed the dependency issue error the same way.
Like: "sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc6 libcom-err2 libkrb5support0
libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libgcc-s1 libnss-nisplus libcrypt1s"
   * What was the outcome of this action?
The same error gets shown after again running the "sudo aptitude reinstall ~i"
command again. Also a libc6 and libgcc-s1 error gets shown after running the
reinstall command with using the "needrestart" feature.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
All packages would be reinstalled due to having some packages reconfigured that
needed to be reconfigured.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libcrypt1       1:4.4.17-1
ii  libgcc-s1       10.2.0-16
ii  libnss-nis      3.1-4
ii  libnss-nisplus  1.3-4

Versions of packages libc6 recommends:
ii  libidn2-0  2.3.0-3

Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.74
pn  glibc-doc              <none>
ii  libc-l10n              2.31-4
ii  locales                2.31-4

-- debconf information:
  glibc/kernel-not-supported:
  glibc/disable-screensaver:
  glibc/kernel-too-old:
  glibc/upgrade: true
  glibc/restart-services:
  glibc/restart-failed:
* libraries/restart-without-asking: true