[Pkg-alsa-devel] bugreport lib32asound2

[Andres Salomon]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:52:16 +0200
Matti Palmström <sjukfan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: |lib32asound2
> Version: |1.0.22-2~bpo50+2
> 
> Aptitude reports
> |"The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> lib32asound2: PreDepends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.9-18) but 2.7-18lenny2 is to 
> be installed
> Conflicts: libc6-i386 (<= 2.9-18) but 2.7-18lenny2 is to be installed|"
> 

This is hard-coded into the control file; see the following bug for the
reasoning:

http://bugs.debian.org/533005

> According to a user on the forum "Something is wrong there--Lenny 
> Backports does not build against a newer libc6."
> 
> I'm using Lenny with backports
> 

I've built a bpo that removes the pre-depends/conflicts; however, a)
it's for i386 (and I'm assuming you're using amd64?), and b) I have no
idea if it'll explode w/ lenny's glibc.  Feel free to test it and
report back, though.  If it works and the change is safe, I'll go ahead
and upload to bpo.  If it doesn't work or is somehow unsafe (and I've
hopefully cc'd the relevant alsa-lib folks), we'll have to
either live without multiarch support for the bpo or get a proper fix
together for it. 

http://dev.queued.net/~dilinger/alsa-lib-bpo/