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Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition



Nick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca> schrieb:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>> Nick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>Is there any plan amongst dpkg type folk to visit and solve this
>>>problem? Or even a bug number?
>> There are several, of different severities, as you could easily have
>> found out yourself.
>
> I found an 8 year old wishlist bug on dpkg-dev, bug 4588. 

There's also #4628, and #203792 with minor severity.

> I found a
> debian-mentors discussion from 1999 where someone claims that dpkg-dev
> should not need to represent binary changes,
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/1999/06/msg00003.html .
>
> Am I looking in the wrong places?

I guess the right place would be debian-dpkg@l.d.o

> Are there any serious initiatives, with traction?

dpkg has a horribly long list of bugs and feature requests. I doubt that
there is serious action to resolve this one in dpkg1, but rumor goes
that about dpkg2. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



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