On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:25:48AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:20:35PM +0100, Jürgen A.Erhard wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.13.16 > > Followup-For: Bug #99870 > > > > Wasn't there a pretty simple patch for this somewhere? > > If there is, it's not in the bug report.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it, and I'm also pretty sure it was in the
BTS. But... hmmm, somewhere :P
Oh, it was there... and I realize now I took it for an old and fixed
bug. My bad. For reference, the patch I was thinking of was in 42559
and "siblings".
I'll take a good long look at this next time I run into it.
> > Even if not, it doesn't seem too complicated to fix, so why has there
> > be *no* action in 4+ years?
>
> Probably because dpkg has a huge amount of bugs, 500+- right now. And
> priorities vary from developer to developer. Patches welcome though.
Will look out for this bug occuring, any maybe even dig into u-a's
Perl (ewwwww) source. :P
Bye, J
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