On 07/10/2012 05:23 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Let me elaborate. > > /var/lib/dpkg/* is internal and private to dpkg state/database. Parsing > /var/lib/dpkg/* externally is not a supported, nor it is a guaranteed > interface. Therefore this bug is marked as invalid. I understand > > Quantal, Wheezy and Sid have a major new dpkg version (w.r.t. internal > state/database structures), hence the file names are different there. > Can you please show how the file names of internal data structures you > described above affect or introduce bugs in higher level tools: e.g. > dpkg, dpkg-query, apt, aptitude, etc. ? > I'm trying to get the install time from a package and this looks like the only way. Is there another way to tell what the install date from a package is?
So yes the bug is invalid then. Thank you Dmitrijs for the comments. Regards, William -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020833 Title: the filename /var/dpkg/info/e2fslibs.list does not match To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1020833/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
