New libc6, locales (+gconv-modules+libc6-bin) --> deinstall almost everything

[Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>]

Hi,
I've found nothing the archives (strange). So I've (re)subscribed here:

Since last libc6, locales potato 2.1.2-12, dselect insists to set most
packages to
remove. I set gconv-modules and libc6-bin to purge but still the same.  But
what's strange when I now want to leave the 'Select' with <return> I
get no conflicts are listed. Nevertheless dselect suggest to still remove
lot of packages and installs perl5.004 stuff again.    ??

I've suspected a dselect but and tried

	apt-get install libc6

Better but still lot of things would be removed:

The following extra packages will be installed:
  libc6-dev netscape-base-4
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  abiword balsa cheops dia eeyes gconv-modules gedit gentoo gfloppy gfontview gftp gimp
  gimp-nonfree gmc gnome-admin gnome-bin gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-gv
  gnome-help gnome-network gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-pim gnome-print
  gnome-session gnome-terminal gnome-think gnome-utils gnotepad+ gnotes gnumeric gphoto
  gps gqview gtimer gtk-engines-gtkstep gtk-engines-metal gtk-engines-notif
  gtk-engines-pixmap gtk-engines-redmond95 gtk-engines-thinice gtkdiff gtkfind
  gtkfontsel gtkgraph gtop guitar gxedit icepref icewm-gnome imlib-progs libc6-bin
  libcapplet0 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32
  libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk-perl libgtk1.2 libgtkxmhtml1 libobgnome0 libobgtk1
  libzvt2 python-gtk smpeg-gtv ssh-askpass-gnome vim-perl xscreensaver
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 72 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.                                               

Looking  libgtk-1.2 I can't see what's wrong with it's Depend: line


Anyone know how to fix this?  

For later similar problems: Is there a tools that tells if the dependencies
of a package are okay, somehting like

	dpkg-check -dependencies  libgtk1.2
	dpkg-check -what-depends-on gconvmodules

man -k for 'apt' 'dpkg' 'depend' and 'check' did not help.

Thanks,
Achim


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