[Bug 1661757] [NEW] libc6 Depends line for xenial i386 package appears to be incorrect.

[Rodney Lott]

Public bug reported:

Upon inspecting the i386 and amd64 packages of libncurses5/xenial, there
appears to be an error in the libc6 dependency for the i386 case:

$ dpkg -I libncurses5_6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb | grep Depends
 Depends: libtinfo5 (= 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.14)
$ dpkg -I libncurses5_6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1_i386.deb | grep Depends
 Depends: libtinfo5 (= 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.4)

As you can see, the amd64 version indicates a libc6 version of 2.14 or
greater, but the i386 version says 2.4 or greater. It would appear that
this is a typo, since it should match the amd64 case and that there is
no libc6 version in Ubuntu with that version number. Ubuntu Zesty has a
libc6 version of 2.24-7ubuntu2.

** Affects: ncurses (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  libc6 Depends line for xenial i386 package appears to be incorrect.

Status in ncurses package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Upon inspecting the i386 and amd64 packages of libncurses5/xenial,
  there appears to be an error in the libc6 dependency for the i386
  case:

  $ dpkg -I libncurses5_6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb | grep Depends
   Depends: libtinfo5 (= 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.14)
  $ dpkg -I libncurses5_6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1_i386.deb | grep Depends
   Depends: libtinfo5 (= 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.4)

  As you can see, the amd64 version indicates a libc6 version of 2.14 or
  greater, but the i386 version says 2.4 or greater. It would appear
  that this is a typo, since it should match the amd64 case and that
  there is no libc6 version in Ubuntu with that version number. Ubuntu
  Zesty has a libc6 version of 2.24-7ubuntu2.

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