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Re: [LUG] libc6 & Debian testing

 

Keith Abraham wrote:
>
> apt-get is reporting that most "testing" packages now require
> libc6 2.3.5-6 and locales 2.3.5-6. Yet when I try to upgrade these
> two packages apt-listbugs reports critical bugs which don't seem
> to exist on Debian's bug lists.
> 
>    Is this one of those times when I need to do a dist-upgrade?

Since listbugs queries the database they are in there somewhere.

Also I didn't think critical bugs would stop you installing a package,
is that perhaps an option you've chosen somewhere? In configuring
listbugs perhaps?

I believe the advice is always to run "apt-get -s dist-upgrade" when
living in testing or unstable ("-s" is a dry run), it certainly
shouldn't hurt to do a dist-upgrade assuming you have a vanilla testing
or unstable installation.

Having recently done the libc upgrade a couple of times it all "just
worked", and I remember when libc upgrades were fraught and fearful affairs.

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