Re: dpkg-statoverride vs. suidmanager
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Joey Hess wrote:
> > What if such a package is upgraded using an older version of dpkg
> > though?
>
> The preinst will bomb since dpkg-statoverride either doesn't exist
> or will abort due to an illegal option. The
I was assuming the preinst had reasonably smart checks for that.
> > So the only choice I can see is to require that all such packages that used
> > to use suidregister have a versioned dependancy on dpkg.
>
> pre-dependency even.
Ugh, you're right.
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