Bug#2546: dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

Ian Jackson:
 > This is very odd.  dpkg invokes maintainer scripts using `exec',
 > which would fail if the script weren't executable.  I'm sure you
 > ought to have seen some messages if it had actually tried to
 > complete the installation with (say) the postinst not executable.

The messages may have been issued.  How would I know?  [I've been
doing a lot of installing, and have seen lots of error messages.  At
this point, most of the remaining ones are about the absence of
libc5-pic, ncurses3.0-pic, tcl or tk.]

 > > If it's not dpkg that's doing this, I suppose maybe it's a kernel bug
 > > of some sort...
 >
 > You're not using umsdos or something, are you ?

I am, but not for any area that dpkg would touch.

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Raul