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Re: Replaces: line (was: Re: Bug#2582: last is obsolete)



Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Re: Replaces: line (was: Re: Bug#2582: last is obsolete)"):
> On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
...
> > One way is for the sysvinit to simply purge the last package in its
> > postinst.
> 
> Don't do that, or something similar, for your miscutils without 
> prior consultation with Ian J. 

Save yourself the trouble - don't even think about it :-).  It won't
work at all, and neither will any of the things you think may work
around dpkg's database locking.

Ian.



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