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Re: *UNAPPROVED* dpkg nmu



* Adam Heath 

| ps: Sometimes I take so long in doing dpkg uploads, not because I'm
| busy or lazy, but because I want a large set of packages to upgrade
| with apt, so that I can test out my new dpkg changes.  I do my
| fixes, compile dpkg, install, do a full dist-upgrade, fix whatever
| bugs I might have introduced, do another compile of dpkg on the
| lastest -dev pkgs, then upload.

This is one of the reasons dpkg needs a proper test suite.  There is
currently no way to reliably test dpkg, which is a shame.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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