Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > libc5-dev does provide libc-dev as well, but that package is not > allowed to be installed on glibc2-based Debian systems, and > libc5-altdev does not provide libc-dev.
`not allowed' is simply not true. It's entirely possible to install libpwdb0g-dev on a system with libc5-dev (if libpwdb0g-dev depended on libc-dev as you are proposing), if one were then to compile libpwdb based apps, you would get mixed libc dependencies. If this is really a problem which needs addresses, libc6-dev (and equivalents) _must_ providing something other than libc-dev. (glibc-dev maybe?) Anything else is worse than ugly. [libpwdb is a bad example for various reasons, it's just a random example, I'm sure some there are good ones, which I can't be bothered to find] -- James "Never trust trucks"
