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Bug#194190: ITP: dpkg-rebuild -- Rebuild dpkg's status file



On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote:

> * Package name    : dpkg-rebuild
>   Version         : Will be 0.1
> 
>  Rebuild the Debian '/var/lib/dpkg/status' file from information in
>  '/var/lib/dpkg/available' and '/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list'.  This is
>  useful if your 'status' file got corrupted if the system crashed during
>  package maintenance, for example.
> 
>  I think this script is quite useful although it is not complete.
>  Unless somebody has serious reason to refuse this package entering
>  Debian, I will package and upload it.

  I'm not claiming this is a serious objection, but this file 
 is backed up into /var/backups on a nightly (?) basis by the cron
 package.

  I admit that I didn't learn of this until very recently so it could
 well be the case that this isn't widely documented..

Steve
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