Re: libc6?!!!

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> The broader problem is that dpkg doesn't cope with versioned dependencies on
> provided packages.

Indeed.

In this particular case, however, I wonder what is the point of making
libstdc++2.10-dev to depend on a specific version of libc6-dev at all,
since it already depends on a specific (>=) version of libstdc++2.10 and
libc6-dev already depends on a specific (=) version of libc6.

Is there a way to *not* satisfy libstdc++2.10-dev's dependency on
libc6-dev while satisfying every other dependency?
If not, perhaps the dependency may be removed.