apt problems

[Michelle Murrain <mpm@murrain.net>]

The result of a dumb mistake:

I wanted to upgrade a particular package from woody, and in the middle, it 
stopped because it didn't have a newer copy of libc6. I decided at that point 
that I would forgo the upgrade. However, somehow, part of it got installed 
somehow, and now I can't install anything using apt. I need to figure out how 
to get out of this hole.

Problem: I now have base-passwd installed at a version that requires libc6 
2.1.94, although I only have 2.1.3-13 installed. Whenever I try to apt-get 
anything, I get:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  base-passwd: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.94) but 2.1.3-13 is to be installed
  mailman: Depends: logrotate but it is not going to be installed   

How do I downgrade my base-passwd, and clear out this mailman/logrotate issue 
(I ended up installing a newer version of mailman from tarball, and didn't 
install logrotate at all)

DON'T tell me to apt-get -f install, because I get a nasty, nasty message 
suggesting that I'll lose big chunks of my system install, including bash!

Michelle
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michelle /pe[a]?rl/ murrain
michelle@murrain.net