Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl> writes: > dpkg and libdpkg are in the same package both will be upgraded at the > same time Not exactly at the same time. There is some interval at which dpkg has upgraded one and not the other. If some fatal error occurs then, you'll have mismatched versions. The same fatal error occurring in a staticly linked dpkg wouldn't be a problem. Guy