Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade

[Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@zetnet.co.uk>]

Hi Ian,

Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Josip Rodin writes ("Bug#33618: multiple* packagess insist on dpkg upgrade"):
> ...
> > dpkg --assert-working-epoch 2>&- || {
> ...
> > This dpkg option was added in version 1.4.0.7, and dpkg in question was
> > 1.4.0.23.2. I've now tried this option, it works normally with version
> > 1.4.0.34. Of course, the svgalib-bin package installed flawlessly.
> > 
> > I think it's now way too late to be worrying about hamm's dpkg version,
> > since it's obviously fixed in more current versions, and we don't support
> > hamm anymore.
> 
> Hmm.  Very well.
> 
> I notice that the
>  --assert-working-epoch
> option was added in the NMU series, but not filed as a bug, so it
> wasn't in my tree.
> 
> I've added it now (I've already fixed, I think, the bug that it refers
> to).

Just checking: you mean you've added/will add the option to the
version of dpkg in Hamm, so I can close this bug?  Otherwise, I can
reassign it to dpkg, or whatever you think best! ;-)

Thanks,

Andy

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