Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.9 Severity: wishlist
There's a problem with debsums and other programs unneccessarily exiting with a failure exit code on debian systems where localepurge is used. The reason for this problem is that while localepurge deletes superfluous files in debian distributions on a case-by-case basis in what I think is a very elegant, but incomplete fashion; the files are moved, but the entries in dpkg's /var/lib/dpkg/ -.list and -.md5sums files remain. So next time a package's integrity is checked (by debsums, dpkg, or whatever), it thinks that the package is corrupt. I was talking with localepurge's author, Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and he told me that localepurge as it stands now can't do anything about that: <me> > > I think this problem could be transformed from a major one into a minor > > one by localepurge cleaning up after itself after cleaning up after the > > extra locales - by removing entires from the appropriate .list and > > .md5sums files in /var/lib/dpkg as (or after) locale files are purged. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nope, i definitely won't mess around with other packages files because in > the case of everything under /var/lib/dpkg this would mean touching on > dpkg's domain. This would securely create unmanagable side effects and my > immediate expulsion from the Debian project. ;-) Makes sense to me. So is the best solution, then, to move localepurge into the dpkg distribution so that it's maintained by the same people who maintain the /var/lib/dpkg/ files? Or is there some other, better way? Maybe a command-line utility in the dpkg distribution that localepurge could call to "safely" remove these entries from .list and .md5sums? This is obviously a far less important problem than many of the hundreds of entries on dpkg's outstanding bug list, so I don't expect any of you to have the time to deal with it soon... but it would be nice to see all of debian's package management utilities live harmoniously one day. :-) Thanks!!!! - Tyler -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux crackerjack 2.4.19-crackerjack #1 SMP Mon Jan 6 18:29:45 PST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii dselect 1.10.9 a user tool to manage Debian packa ii libc6 2.3.1-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
