On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:31:23 -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
wrote:
> I'm using Sarge.
>
> I just did an "aptitude update," and now when I attempt to upgrade,
> aptitude says that it wants to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev.
>
> I know that those are pretty critical to the functioning of the system,
> so I've temporarily put them on hold, and I'm not upgrading yet.
>
> My question is "why are libc6 and libc6-dev being upgraded?" I didn't
> see anything on the http://www.debian.org/security/ site suggesting that
> libc6 needed to be upgraded, and I didn't change my sources.list.
>
> This is "stable." Things aren't upgraded unless it's a security concern
> (or so I thought).
You can use
aptitude changelog libc6 libc6-dev
to see the changelogs for the new packages. Maybe that will tell you
what is up. If that does not work (I often have problems with this
lately), you can use
cd tmpdir
aptitude download libc6
dpkg-deb -X libc6 .
to download the package to some temporary directory and extract the
files. The changelogs should then be in
tmpdir/usr/share/doc/libc6/changelog.Debian.gz
(This works as a normal user as long as you have write permissions for
tmpdir, so there is no danger of damage to your system.)
--
Regards,
Florian
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