bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:23:40 +0200
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> However, instead of installing the ‘glibc’ package, you may want to
> install the ‘gcc-toolchain’ package, which provides all the tools needed
> to do software development (GCC, libc, Binutils, the ‘ld wrapper’, etc.)

I tried that now - that works fine. 

Why can I install glibc (when it doesn't work anyway)? What's the difference?
Is it documented?

Thanks.

Regards,
   Danny