On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:25:48AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:20:35PM +0100, Jürgen A.Erhard wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.13.16 > > Followup-For: Bug #99870 > > > > Wasn't there a pretty simple patch for this somewhere? > > If there is, it's not in the bug report.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it, and I'm also pretty sure it was in the BTS. But... hmmm, somewhere :P Oh, it was there... and I realize now I took it for an old and fixed bug. My bad. For reference, the patch I was thinking of was in 42559 and "siblings". I'll take a good long look at this next time I run into it. > > Even if not, it doesn't seem too complicated to fix, so why has there > > be *no* action in 4+ years? > > Probably because dpkg has a huge amount of bugs, 500+- right now. And > priorities vary from developer to developer. Patches welcome though. Will look out for this bug occuring, any maybe even dig into u-a's Perl (ewwwww) source. :P Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard Invasion! http://invasion.jerhard.org GNUstep - Free OPENSTEP (http://www.gnustep.org) Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening
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