Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The broader problem is that dpkg doesn't cope with versioned dependencies on > provided packages.
Indeed. In this particular case, however, I wonder what is the point of making libstdc++2.10-dev to depend on a specific version of libc6-dev at all, since it already depends on a specific (>=) version of libstdc++2.10 and libc6-dev already depends on a specific (=) version of libc6. Is there a way to *not* satisfy libstdc++2.10-dev's dependency on libc6-dev while satisfying every other dependency? If not, perhaps the dependency may be removed.
