* Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-20 16:00]: > Building Dependency Tree... > Package libc6 has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > of sources.list > However the following packages replace it: > libdb2 libdb1-compat > E: Package libc6 has no installation candidate > apt-get failed. > > This is on alpha and ia64. I vaguely remember seeing some problem with > using libc6 as a Build-Depend (something like libc6 | libc ?) - I just > can't remember, and as I have no access to one of these boxes, I would > appreciate a smack with a cluebat, please. There's whole thread on debian-devel on that topic. Solution: Depends: libc6 | libc
and for build-depends
Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev
yours Martin
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