Re: dpkg non-non maintainer release

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Martin" == Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:

 Martin> PS: As a sidenote I tried apt, it forced me to do vi
 Martin> /var/lib/dpkg/status three times where dselect/dpkg didn't
 Martin> force me.

	I think that is because dselect/dpkg are unaware of broken
 systems, and because apt is stricter, it probably means that there is
 less chance of mysterious failures on your machine than under the
 more lax policy followed so far.

	This is a good thing (tm)

	manoj

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