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Re: Maint scripts exit status and apt.



On 17 Dec 1999, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:

>  I don't think that `apt' should have aborted there; it ought to have
>  continued on its way.  We need to define some standard exit status
>  numbers for those scripts.

dpkg does not provide adaquate status information to permit APT to
resequence the package selections in the event of a failure.

Jason


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