severity 430463 wishlist tag 430463 - moreinfo unreproducible thanks On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:17:39AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > Since nobody so far seems to have encountered the same problem I'm > > inclined to close the bug report. If you still think there is really > > As Raphaël pointed out, dpkg-dev probably contained a real directory > eons ago (I'm sure I must have done at least one full re-install since > bo, but I couldn't say when was the last one), and dpkg doesn't cope > well with that. Removing and installing worked out fine, obviously. > > Do feel free to either close this bug (on account that it is documented > deep in the bowels of the policy), or merge it with #156463, whichever > is best.
On the one hand this is a upgrade issue for some ancient version of dpkg-dev. On the other hand the current maintainer scripts handle upgrade issues for even more ancient versions. So I'm a bit reluctant to close this outright. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
