Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section

[Jakob Bohm <jbj@image.dk>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 07:20:51AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 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?

Not at all, I don't maintain adduser, I was just offering some
research on the extent of the issue, as contrasted against the
huge number of packages that need libc6 to be available at all
times.

I do note, however, that the author of adduser seems to have
included specific code to ensure operation even when faced with
certain classes of broken systems.

> 
> Remember when perl broke during the libdb upgrade?

I heard it was nasty (fortunately I was not tracking the affected
branch at the time).

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