Steve Langasek wrote: > These are both dependency lines, not build-depends. You should *never* > build-depend on libc6, as it is an essential package; [...] Minor nitpick: libc6 is not essential, only essential-de-facto, since most essential packages depend on it. Policy explicitly forbids libraries to be essential. The fact that there is a hardcoded libc6 in a Depends line means the package might not be using dpkg-shlibdps. This is probably the real bug.