Re: Bug#1209: lost bug report? dpkg and dependencies

[Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

Anders Chrigstrom writes ("Re: Bug#1209: lost bug report? dpkg and dependencies"):
> It was easy to reproduce. I removed cvs and rcs from my system, unpacked 
> them and configured them. Here is the log from the configuration.
> ---
> bash# dpkg -D440 --configure -a -O -E --no-act

--no-act was broken in this respect.  I think I've fixed it in
0.93.69.  In general --no-act isn't very good at reproducing bugs,
because they require more complicated situations than can arise if you
don't do anything.

Richard Kettlewell writes ("Bug#1209: lost bug report? dpkg and dependencies"):
> The same problem occurs with some of the TeX packages:

Thanks, that was very helpful.  Since I don't use TeX I was able to
use this as a nice test case :-).

I have reproduced and (I think) fixed the problem.

Ian.