Bug#51380: Not a bug?

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:02:55PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Hi, should this bug be closed? The last evaluation from Marcus Brinkmann
> seems to indicate that this is not a bug, and there has been no response
> from the submitter since.
> 
> > of course dpkg requires itself to build if you try to build
> > the Debian package.

The point is better conveyed with #53393 with which this bug is merged.
If the copy of dpkg that was just built was used to create the dpkg .debs,
then you wouldn't need dpkg already installed (think bootstrapping) and
you'd get a cheap regression check as well.

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