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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:14:17PM +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> This isn't Fedora Core, corruption of the dpkg status is a rare event
> usually caused by Debian developers fiddling with things that shouldn't
> (possibly inclusion of dodgy third party packages?!), it isn't a
> designed in failure mode like "rpm" ;)
I don't know what you're talking about, corrupting the database is a perfectly
reasonable thing for the application to do when it can't install the package,
or uninstall the package, or start, or finish, or gets bored, or it's
Tuesday... ;)
bma
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