This bug was fixed in the package dpkg - 1.16.3ubuntu1
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dpkg (1.16.3ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
* Merge with 1.16.3 from unstable:
- Change the multiarch downgrade version checks in prerm/postrm
from 1.16.2 to 1.16.0~ to reflect when multiarch landed in Ubuntu.
- Migrate dpkg multiarch conffile (and other multi-arch-related
conf settings) to the new DB with dpkg --add-architecture, but
keep a copy of the old conffile if it was modified.
- Out of paranoia, keep an option handler for foreign-architecture
that informs people that they need to scrub their config files
and upgrade, on the off chance that the above migration fails
for some reason (this mitigates the chances of leaving users with
a dpkg that fails to run due to a broken config).
* Changes remaining from previous Ubuntu versions:
- Add DPKG_UNTRANSLATED_MESSAGES environment check so that higher-level
tools can get untranslated dpkg terminal log messages while at the
same time having translated debconf prompts. This is useful for tools
that hide the dpkg terminal by default and use apport for bug
reporting with the untranslated error message.
- Build-depend on gettext:any for cross-building support.
- Apply patch from Steve McIntyre to special-case armhf/armel ELF
objects in Shlibs/Objdump.pm, so we don't get incorrect deps.
dpkg (1.16.3) unstable; urgency=low
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Do not look for newline beyond the read buffer on dpkg-deb extract.
* Check update-alternative name and link arguments for all commands.
Closes: #665050
* Check all dpkg-divert filename arguments to be absolute and to not
contain newlines. Closes: #21722
* Print errors while reading the file list files on a new line instead
of just after the progress percentage. Closes: #552517
* Document in dpkg-source(1) that patches for source format “3.0 (quilt)”
are expected to apply without any fuzz. Closes: #666752
Based on a patch by Luca Capello .
* Remove redundant -Wformat-security from default dpkg-buildflags, which
is already implied by -Werror=format-security. Closes: #664964
Suggested by Peter Eisentraut .
* Document in dpkg-query(1) that commands producing multiple paragraphs
will preserve the order of the packages specified on the argument list.
* Change start-stop-daemon --exec on GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
and Solaris to check for executables matching device and inode numbers
instead of filenames.
* Change start-stop-daemon --name on GNU/Hurd to check the process' argv[1]
in addition to argv[0], to handle both binaries and interpreted scripts.
Reported by Mats Erik Andersson .
* Handle deb format versions as major.minor integers instead of strings or
floats, the latter being susceptible to parsing errors depending on the
current locale (although this was only affecting the old deb format).
* Ignore the minor format version number for deb-split format, unifying
the behaviour with the deb format.
* Add support for an abitable containing arch attribute overrides.
* Add x32 support to abitable, ostable and triplettable. Closes: #667037
* Fix start-stop-daemon to work with relative --exec arguments and --chdir.
Closes: #669047
* Ignore request to rename a file owned by the diverting package on
«dpkg-divert --add --rename». Closes: #588077
* Clarify dpkg-gensymbols(1) by way of examples that architecture wildcards
are supported in symbols files. Closes: #670048
* Fix memory leak due to Dpkg::Control objects not being garbage-collected.
Thanks to Ben Harris . Closes: #669012
* Compute the md5sum hash on unpack for empty files too, so that these
can be checked correctly for matching content when installing multiple
package instances.
* Generate md5sums files automatically at unpack time if missing from the
binary package. Closes: #155676, #155799
* Add missing list and md5sums database file checks to «dpkg --audit».
[ Helge Kreutzmann ]
* Fix a typo in man/dpkg-buildflags.1.
[ Updated dpkg translations ]
* French (Christian Perrier).
* German (Sven Joachim).
* Swedish (Peter Krefting).
[ Updated dselect translations ]
* French (Christian Perrier).
* German (Sven Joachim).
* Swedish (Peter Krefting).
[ Updated scripts translations ]
* French (Christian Perrier).
* Swedish (Peter Krefting).
[ Updated scripts translations ]
* French (Christian Perrier).
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
* Swedish (Peter Krefting).
dpkg (1.16.2) unstable; urgency=low
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Move and to the top of trigdeferred.l to properly
use the configured features and compat code.
* Honour --disable-nls when the system lacks obstack support, by updating
the obstack compat module from gnulib.
* Link the libdpkg unit tests with libcompat and libintl, so that systems
needing them will compil
