Re: locales/glibc dependency problem

[Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel@msxnet.org>]

Hi all,

> 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'm also suffering from this problem. As soon as the new glibc6 version 
was installed, locales and my blackdown j2re1.3 packages too. I can't 
install locales and j2re anymore!

Maybe we should file a bug against the glibc6 package?

Can someone fix this please!?

Thanks!

By the way, I have a security deb line (testing) and this doesn't help.

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Best regards,

Manuel Bilderbeek