Re: Problem with the "updmap scheme" when a font package is in an "inconsistent state"

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Die, 20 Jun 2006, Florent Rougon wrote:
>   It seems dpkg updates /var/lib/dpkg/status only at the end of its run,
>   which causes grep-status to be inaccurate when run from a maintainer

I seem to remember that I read something like: "Don't use dpkg to check
for other packages/status etc" somewhere, which would fit to what you
wrote.

>   It seems there are two "reliable" ways left to solve the problem:
>   .dpkg-new checking (fast, but slightly ugly) and dpkg-query (slow, but
>   cleaner at first sight).

I would opt for .dpkg-new checking:
* it is faster and quite simple
* we can change it if dpkg will change in the future. But I am sure we
  will get a bug report as soon as dpkg does.

Best wishes

Norbert

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