On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 05:59:04PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > We also have to realize that people may be using an older dpkg, so relying > on this fix is not an option.
Hmm.. I guess dpkg isn't smart enough to deal properly with the case where there's a Pre-Depends: on dpkg? How about this, as a kludge: at the tail end of dpkg's postinst, check for a currently running version of dpkg with that multiple-ref handling bug -- if it's running, clean up the db a little then kill that dpkg. -- Raul
