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Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink



Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl> writes:

> > dpkg              28817  dpkg takes no care over libdpkg [101]  (Ian Jackson and others <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>)
> 
> Can be excluded like I already explained to you (basically this only
> becomes an issue when libdpkg is split into its own package).

That's not true.  If the interface between dpkg and the library ever
changed, then dpkg could crash as it would suddenly have mismatched
versions.

I believe that upgrading to a statically linked dpkg is guaranteed to
work.


Guy


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