I've now tested my version of Goswin's patch by running my chroot-minimizing piuparts (with the patched dpkg in the chroot) against all packages that used to work. They all work, except a couple of hundred, which fail due to missing dependencies (usually on adduser or debconf related things), no errors due to dpkg failures.
Just as a datapoint. -- Happiness is going NIH on your own stuff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]