Bug#220639: apt: upgrades libc6 unncessarily
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.14
Severity: normal
I don't understand why apt is trying to upgrade libc6 when installing
subversion (see below). Subversion depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), and the
version installed, namely 2.3.2-9, should satisfy this.
apt-get install subversion does not do this.
I am tracking sarge on this machine.
Faheem.
Package: subversion
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 4096
Maintainer: David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.32.1-1
Depends: libapr0 (>= 2.0.47), libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), libdb4.1, libexpat1 (>=
1.95.6), libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1), libneon24 (>= 0.24.0), libssl0.9.7, libsvn0
(= 0.32.1-1), libxml2 (>= 2.5.9), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), patch, db4.1-util
maxwell:/home/faheem/co# apt-get install -st unstable subversion
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
db4.1-util libapr0 libc6 libc6-dev libneon24 libsvn0 linux-kernel-headers
locales
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc manpages-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
db4.1-util libapr0 libneon24 libsvn0 linux-kernel-headers subversion
The following packages will be upgraded
libc6 libc6-dev locales
3 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 141 not upgraded.
Inst libc6-dev [2.3.2-9] (2.3.2.ds1-10 Debian:unstable) []
Inst linux-kernel-headers (2.5.999-test7-bk-9 Debian:unstable) []
Inst locales [2.3.2-9] (2.3.2.ds1-10 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libc6 [2.3.2-9] (2.3.2.ds1-10 Debian:unstable)
Conf libc6 (2.3.2.ds1-10 Debian:unstable)
Inst db4.1-util (4.1.25-10 Debian:testing)
Inst libapr0 (2.0.48-3 Debian:unstable)
Inst libneon24 (0.24.0-1 Debian:unstable)
Inst libsvn0 (0.32.1-1 Debian:unstable)
Inst subversion (0.32.1-1 Debian:unstable)
Conf linux-kernel-headers (2.5.999-test7-bk-9 Debian:unstable)
Conf libc6-dev (2.3.2.ds1-10 Debian:unstable)
Conf locales (2.3.2.ds1-10 Debian:unstable)
Conf db4.1-util (4.1.25-10 Debian:testing)
Conf libapr0 (2.0.48-3 Debian:unstable)
Conf libneon24 (0.24.0-1 Debian:unstable)
Conf libsvn0 (0.32.1-1 Debian:unstable)
Conf subversion (0.32.1-1 Debian:unstable)
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Cache-Limit "16777216";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux maxwell 2.4.20 #1 Thu Feb 6 18:22:57 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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