reassign 591885 dpkg retitle dpkg: Should print a warning instead of a fatal error. thanks
Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> writes: > On Fr, 2010-08-06 at 12:24 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: >> Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:12:27AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > Not a bug, just an invalid file which is the result of using an >> > inoffical repository (virtualbox.org) which contains invalid >> > version numbers (and dpkg now rejects invalid version numbers). >> >> Then why this bug has been fixed in uscan and isn't posssible to fix >> that in apt ? > > Because uscan had a bug (it quoted version numbers), and APT has no bug; > it only outputs the records found in the repositories (and the > virtualbox.org version numbers are invalid). > > You might want to reopen the bug and reassign it to dpkg and ask them to > only print a warning (and continue) instead of an error (and aborting). Certainly a good idea. dpkg people could you do that ? The current dpkg version break sync-available from the dctrl-tools package. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
