Re: locales appears to be uninstallable in Sid

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 16 Apr 2007, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hi Anthony.
> 
> Anthony Campbell, 16.04.2007 11:28:
> > I'm using Sid. 
> > 
> > Locales has disappeared and can't be installed, because it depends on
> > glibc-2.5-1, which is not installable.
> 
> Hm? Seems fine here:
> 
> > $ apt-cache policy locales
> > locales:
> >   Installed: 2.5-1
> >   Candidate: 2.5-2
> >   Version table:
> >      2.5-2 0
> >         500 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> >  *** 2.5-1 0
> >         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> >      2.5-0exp6 0
> >           1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Packages
> >      2.3.6.ds1-13 0
> >         500 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 
> I upgraded glibc three days ago and at the moment "locales" only cannot be
> upgraded because "libc6" and "libc6-dev" haven???t arrived in their new versions yet.
> 
> > In summary, locales seems to be pretty broken at present, or am I
> > missing something?
> 
> Dunno, everything works fine here.
> 
> 
> Regards, Mathias
> 
> -- 
> debian/rules
> 

The maintainer informs me that the missing glibc-2.5-1 is provided by a
package that is not uploaded yet (libc6-2.5-2) so it's just a matter of
waiting.



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