Re: Bug#41839: apt: apt-get reinstalls packages
On 27 Jul 1999, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > The problem is that dpkg is lower casing the dependency fields. I have
> > fixed it in the latest cvs version.
>
> Ugh. But aren't upper case letters illegal in package names? Looks like we
> need Yet Another Lintian Check.
I have no idea. I think what dpkg does (same thing APT does actually) is
that it parses the package file and generates named entries in it's
database as it discovers them. So the case of a package will be uniform,
but it will take on the first mentioned casing from any field that dpkg
parses. So basically if there is a mixture of lower and upper case fields
dpkg will 'randomly' select one and set the entire status file to be like
that, it may even randomly flip/flop from upper case to lower case each
time you run it :>
To fix it, you need to fix every field in every package, it is probably
not worth while.
Jason
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