Re: How can g++ (stable) be incompatible with a fresh stable install?

[Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can think of the following possible solutions:
>
>   1. change the priorities so that stable trumps security;
>   2. (somehow) force the installation of libc6-dev v. 2.13-38+deb7u6;
>   3. (somehow) downgrade my libc6 to the version in
> security.debian.org stable (2.13-38+deb7u4);
>
> The last one seems the most prudent one, but I have no idea of how to
> go about it, since practically everything depends on libc6...

This turned out to be much easier than I'd imagined.  All I had to do was run

    aptitude install libc6=2.13-38+deb7u4

...and answer a couple of straightforward questions on how to handle
one dependency.

After downgrading libc6, the installation of g++ went without a hitch.

And all was clarity and reason once more...