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Bug#165374: Breaks when upgrading to 2.3.1



On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:03:04PM +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:

> >> The problem is that libc6-dbg is unpacked BEFORE libc6 [...]

> > Do you think making libc6-dbg pre-depend instead of depend'ing on
> > libc6 (= 2.3.1-1) would work?

> I suppose so; but I do not know exactly how the internals of dpkg
> work.  All I know is that my system broke down badly which was not
> such a happy experience. :-)

It had never occured to me to put the debug path in the cache file.
I'm not sure how common of a scenario that is, or it should've bitten
someone before.

If noone else comments on it, then I will put that change in.

-- 
learning from failures is nice in theory...
but in practice, it sucks :)
 - Wolfgang Jaehrling



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