Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1.1 Severity: wishlist It sometimes happen that users lose the available file due to bad manipulation or due to filesystem corruption.
That loss is not a big deal and it would be nice if dpkg could continue working afterwards without requiring the user to do "sudo touch /var/lib/dpkg/available". That is it would be nice if dpkg could auto-create that file when it's missing (and when the status file is there, so that we don't create an available file just because --admindir has been wrongly used). (This bug report is triggered by VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/887073) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule-rh/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
