Also, I notice that the coreutils.preinst in the Debian package has
slightly inferior cross-references to the one in the Ubuntu package:
diff --exclude='*~' -ruN debian/coreutils-5.96/debian/coreutils.preinst
coreutils-5.96-5ubuntu1/debian/coreutils.preinst
--- debian/coreutils-5.96/debian/coreutils.preinst 2006-07-03
17:14:06.000000000 +0100
+++ coreutils-5.96-5ubuntu1/debian/coreutils.preinst 2006-07-03
17:14:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
done
# work around stupid dpkg diversion of md5sum
-# get rid of this for etch+1, I don't think there's a better solution until
then
+# Debian #340119, #289369, #313258; Ubuntu (Malone) #26886
case "$2" in
'' | 4.* | 5.?.*)
# coreutils 5.93-1 onwards do this, so we can avoid doing
The comment about getting rid of this in the future is covered by
later more expansive language.
Regards,
Ian.
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