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Bug#220579: downgrade



On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 12:01:49AM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote:

> merge 220579 197430
> thanks
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:17:57PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Since installing a package with dpkg seems to have eliminated the problem
> > (or made it unreproducible), I suspect a problem with the status file.  Do a
> > diff -u between your backup and the new status file, and see what changed.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have the corrupt version of the status file.
> Shouldn't have dpkg read that file too, though?

It does, but it is a completely different implementation, and so doesn't
necessarily break in the same ways.

-- 
 - mdz



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