Re: self-depending packages

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Adam Heath 

| On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| 
| > apt invokes dpkg on the command line and due to maximum command
| > line length it sometimes is split in an unfortunate place.
| >
| > This will be fixed once dpkg is librarified.
| 
| Er, no, it won't.

Please follow my mail-followup-to and don't send me private replies.

Also, according to http://www.netsplit.com/blog/tech/debian/dpkg:

> The libdpkg library
> 
> This is mostly an act of re-engineering the current code so that the
> dpkg command-line tool is simply a wrapper around a libdpkg library.
>
> Front-ends and APT would link to this library instead of using the
> command-line. One of the most immediately obvious things this solves
> is the line-length issue that requires APT to break up invocations,
> sometimes in bad places.

so I think you are wrong here.

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