Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/14/09 22:39, Stephen Dewey wrote:
> I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to
> upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem.
> The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has
> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distribution to my sources
> list.
[snip]
> Any ideas?

Sure.  Don't mix Stable and Testing.  This close to Stable becoming 
Oldstable, Etch and Lenny have very different dependencies.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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