Problem with apt-get and circular dependencies

[Christian Renz <crenz@web42.com>]

My Sparcstation 20 is currently running Debian-stable with a 2.4.18 
kernel. I want to do a dist-upgrade, but I'm running into a problem I 
don't know how to resolve:

apt-get wants to install libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_sparc.deb (to replace 
libc6-2.3.2-7). However, the installation aborts telling me that "You 
have a cpu which requires kernel 2.4.21 or greater in order to install 
this version of glibc." I tried to fix it by installing 
kernel-image-2.4.27-1-sparc32-smp, but to install this, I need a newer 
version of coreutils and initrd-tools (and others) that update glibc. 
Which aborts the installation telling me that... and so on.

How can I break these circular dependencies and get the system to a 
current state?

Thanks for your help!

Greetings,
   Christian

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