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

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Congratulation, you just made your system less secure and reopened
already fixed security problems by downgrading your libc6 to a
vulnerable version.

Grüße,
Sven.

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.