Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.27 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I've installed the commercial nxclient package a while ago. That package had a Description field with an empty line (so, the . was lacking). dpkg did not prevent installation of this file and thus, allowed the status file to become corrupted. This in effect caused an unrelated maintainer script to die because grep-dctrl fails with such a file - so, corrupted status files can have bad consequences. Since running linda etc. are not necessary for external packagers and wrong Description fields are not totally rare, code could be implemented to check for such a condition and prevent installation. Would that fit into the design of dpkg, or is another package a better place for that? -Malte Cornils PS: I just checked, later nxclient packages are already fixed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-mc Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii dselect 1.10.27 a user tool to manage Debian pa ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
