On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:24:47PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > > Historically such > > problems were unpleasantly frequent on buildds due to a combination of buggy > > postrm scripts, and a bug in dpkg's rollback support when calling dpkg > > --purge for a package in the "installed" state. I believe the dpkg bug is > > fixed now, but a) I could be wrong, and b) there may be other bugs in the > > world. > Ah - can you point me to something to read about this? The dpkg changelog, maybe. > How can it be architecture-specific, or host-specific? It almost certainly wouldn't be. But it's quite possible for a different combination of package versions (with different maintainer script bugs) to be used on different autobuilders at a given moment. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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