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dpkg dependency checks are sometimes quite useless ?!



Hi !

Written in a bug support for my wwwoffle packet:

>2) When installing the new unstable wwwoffle (2.4b) with dpkg, the
> installprocess first made a mess (by overwring the binary) and complained 
> about unmet libc2.1 dependencies --after-- that. I don't know if it's dpkg's 
> fault or wwwoffle, but the install process should check dependencies -first-.

I, too, consider this behaviour of dpkg as not very optimal :-(+
Have I done something wrong while packaging or how to prevent such cases ?

read you,

 -christian-



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