Bug#1068024: Potential solution to your downgrade problem in dpkg

2024-03-30 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Joshua Hudson dixit: >2) Statically link all the decompressor libraries into dpkg. Yes this means Totally no. Also, at this point in time, I’m pretty sure that new external suggestions are… not very helpful. The situation is being analysed by a cross-team taskforce, please let them do the

Bug#1068024: Potential solution to your downgrade problem in dpkg

2024-03-30 Thread Joshua Hudson
The dpkg -> xz-utils downgrade problem has a suggestion that suggests itself. 1) Downgrade dpkg's dependency to the last known good. It doesn't matter how old so long as it can read the file formats. I understand this is likely to be 5.4.1. 2) Statically link all the decompressor libraries into