[Python-apps-team] Bug#726613: mercurial wheezy backport has incorrect libc6 dependency

[Faheem Mitha]

Package: mercurial
Version: 2.7.2-1~bpo70+1
Severity: normal

Currently, I see the mercurial wheezy backport is

    2.7.2-1~bpo70+1 0
       100 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ wheezy-backports/main amd64 Packages

and `apt-cache show` gives

    Package: mercurial
    Version: 2.7.2-1~bpo70+1
    Installed-Size: 236
    Maintainer: Python Applications Packaging Team <python-apps-team at lists.alioth.debian.org>
    Architecture: amd64
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8), ucf (>= 2.0020), mercurial-common (= 2.7.2-1~bpo70+1)

But the version of libc6 in wheezy is

    *** 2.13-38 0
           500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

and indeed this version does not install on my wheezy system. It looks
to me like this was somehow compiled against the wrong version of
libc6.

                                                       Regards, Faheem

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash