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Re: dpkg test option?



"F. Heitkamp" <fheitka@attglobal.net> wrote:
>Is there a option that can be passed to dpkg that will just test the
>.deb package for errors and then exit?

No, because too many such errors depend on actually trying to install
the package; a substantial proportion of the errors you might encounter
are in the maintainer scripts, which can't be tested that way.

Waiting a day or two and then checking the bug tracking system for
release-critical bugs might count. :)

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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