Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.24-10 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I tried to install libc6-dev on my armhf embedded hardware. Its not possible, because dependencies are not met. Because the newest libc6-dev depends particularly on linux-kernel (>= 4.9.18-1), and this is an error, at least I hope its not intentional. Because many embedded armhf devices use older kernels, 4.1 , 4.4 ... so on , it depends on BSP what you can get from the HW vendor. Usually they have no 4.9 or any near to mainline kernel. So they have no linux-libc-dev (>= 4.9.18-1) So they cant install libc6-dev (2.24-10) So actually they can't develop. Earlier libc6-dev (<=2.24-9) depended only on linux-libc-dev (without version), so it was installable. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on: ii libc-dev-bin 2.24-10 ii libc6 2.24-10 ii linux-libc-dev 4.9.18-1 libc6-dev recommends no packages. Versions of packages libc6-dev suggests: pn glibc-doc <none> ii manpages-dev 4.10-2 -- no debconf information
