On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 20:19 +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > I experienced some problems with dpkg from experimental: > > - It seems to break type-handling. The following command > returns an empty string instead of an arch list: > > $ type-handling any linux-gnu > This is likely a bug in type-handling, or at least a lack of support for the changes in dpkg 1.13; at a guess, it either dislikes the archtable->ostable/cputable split or the fact that dpkg-architecture returns "linux-gnu" instead of "linux" for DEB_*_GNU_SYSTEM. > - I had problems downgrading dpkg to the unstable version because > of the md5sum* diversions. I noticed that in the > /var/lib/dpkg/diversions file, "coreutils" had been replaced > by the ':' character. I suspect it did happen during the > attempt to downgrade. > Hmm, I hadn't yet put any thought into removing the diversion on uninstall or downgrade ... so I'm not surprised it broke, Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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