On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 12:01:49AM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote: > merge 220579 197430 > thanks > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:17:57PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Since installing a package with dpkg seems to have eliminated the problem > > (or made it unreproducible), I suspect a problem with the status file. Do a > > diff -u between your backup and the new status file, and see what changed. > > Unfortunately, I don't have the corrupt version of the status file. > Shouldn't have dpkg read that file too, though?
It does, but it is a completely different implementation, and so doesn't necessarily break in the same ways. -- - mdz
