Re: Bug reporting script

[Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>]

> Indeed.  Though, perhaps it would be better to ask `is the problem
> that you are unable to configure the package' or some such, so that
> (for example) postinst bugs can be reported.

Noted.

> In the new C dpkg status enquiry options don't lock the database.

Something for version 0.2.  Can I make the repair package have a depend
line for a dpkg beyond a certain version?  (In fact the version I don't
think the version 0.1 I recently uploaded has the right dependencies at
all.)

> How about leaving that up to the checking script ?  It could say `you
> need to be root to report bugs in this package, because the
> configuration files are otherwise inaccessible' or some such.

Rather looks like the only option, doesn't it?

ttfn/rjk