Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.1
Severity: minor
I tried to install a bunch of packages with `dpkg -i', but, after
having successfully unpacked a number of packages it started to
spit out error messages like the following:
package X has too many Conflicts/Replaces pairs
These messages left me with the impression as if dpkg thought each
one of the failed packages to have "too many" Conflicts/Replaces
pairs, whereas, in fact, each of them had only one such pair.
What really happened was that dpkg counted Conflicts/Replaces
pairs for packages specified on the command lines, and started to
fail after the count got over 20 (the value of MAXCONFLICTORS in
src/unpack.c).
I suggest that the error message (src/unpack.c:208) be changed,
perhaps to something like "too many Conflicts/Replaces pairs
encountered".
Best regards,
T.
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