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Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section



On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:23:10PM +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote:
> 
> Also, careful examination of the adduser implementation in
> woody indicates that the package really only needs its
> dependencies to be unpacked, at least to add system users and
> groups.  The configure steps of adduser, passwd, and perl-base
> apparently only change things not affecting that particular
> operation.

Can you really guarantee that this will be the case in future?

Remember when perl broke during the libdb upgrade?
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