On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Christoph Pfisterer wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > While trying to set up a group of packages to be mutually-exclusive, > > I've come across what I think is a bug in dpkg. First, some > > background: I'm using dpkg 1.9.17 on Mac OS X (a.k.a. Darwin) in the > > Fink project (http://fink.sourceforge.net). Fink has its own source > > package format, but uses dpkg to install binary .deb packages (and > > dpkg-deb to create them). I can provide the complete set of patches > > used as well as example .deb packages if requested. > > If you are distributing this resultant binary, and you have patched dpkg, you > MUST make the source changes available.
Ah, I see the patch. Looking it over now(some of this makes sense, and I'll apply it to HEAD).
