Re: dpkg in aout

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Michael Meskes writes ("dpkg in aout"):
> I just remembered Ian saying something like 'either the aout or the elf
> version should go into the unstable tree' (at least I think).
> 
> Please do NOT put the aout version in there since it breaks the complete
> installation. A dpkg update before a libc4 installation and the system is
> dead.

I believe this situation was fixed in dpkg 1.1.4, which has
  Pre-Depends: libc4 | libc
in the control file.  This means that the ELF versions of dpkg which
are on the base disks will not replace the ELF dpkg with it unless
libc4 has already been installed - and it will also ensure that
dselect will install libc4 if dpkg is selected for upgrade.

Ian.