* Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> [2002-10-20 16:00]:
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Package libc6 has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> However the following packages replace it:
> libdb2 libdb1-compat
> E: Package libc6 has no installation candidate
> apt-get failed.
>
> This is on alpha and ia64. I vaguely remember seeing some problem with
> using libc6 as a Build-Depend (something like libc6 | libc ?) - I just
> can't remember, and as I have no access to one of these boxes, I would
> appreciate a smack with a cluebat, please.
There's whole thread on debian-devel on that topic. Solution:
Depends: libc6 | libc
and for build-depends
Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev
yours Martin
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