Re: locales/glibc dependency problem

[Erik Erskine <erik@sundayta.com>]

Colin,

> > > However, there is no glibc package, and in the packages search results 
> > > (http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/locales.html) the locales 
> > > package is shown to be dependent on libc6.
> > >
> > > At the moment I'm having to force dpkg to install this, and also the JDK 
> > > from Blackdown, which depends on it.
> > >
> > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains these lines:
> > >
> > > deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib 
> > > non-free
> >
> > Then you shouldn't be getting locales 2.2.5-6, which is stable's
> > version.
>
> ... he says, lying. It's also testing's version.
>
> You should just be able to install libc6 2.2.5-6.

I've used the security updates for testing, which I've now commented out 
when I started getting these problems:

#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

But it seems that the version of libc6 installed is "2.2.5-9.woody.3" 
which provides glibc version 2.2.5-9.  The locales package depends on 
exactly version 2.2.5-6 of glibc.

I've got a woody server, this has libc6 2.2.5-11, I wonder why the 
testing one is an earlier version.  Should I be using the security 
updates for testing, or are these no longer updated since woody became 
stable?

thanks,

Erik

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|   Erik Erskine                                                     |
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