"Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

> /var/lib/dpkg/status:
>     I *believe* that dpkg keeps a backup in /var/backups/dpkg.status*

Oh yes!  I suspect there's some cronjob that does it, rather than
dpkg.  But I'd not noticed that before.

I agree with your comments about /var/lib/dpkg/info---that really
looks hard to recover from.

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Bruce Stephens                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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