Bug#208874: apt: Upgrade tries to install new libc-udeb as well as existing libc6

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 208874 wishlist
retitle 208874 does not handle udebs
thanks

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:28:25PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Matt Zimmerman]
> > Why do you have udeb sources in sources.list?  apt doesn't deal with
> > udebs; they are only used by debian-installer.
> 
> I needed some libraries from that source once.  Not sure if that is
> the case any more.
> 
> As I said, I'm not sure who is to blame here, but found it strange
> that apt tries to both upgrade libc6 and install libc-udeb as a new
> package.

You should never need to install udebs on an installed system, and I don't
think that apt even tries to handle them intelligently.  If it did, it
should probably treat them like experimental and never install them unless
explicitly requested.

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 - mdz