[Fink-devel] Fwd: Updated dpkg and apt in my experimental

[Sjors G. <mai...@da...>]

Hello all,

As I got no reply to this e-mail on the fink-core list, but would still like to hear from as much people as possible, I'm forwarding this e-mail here. Hope that's not against the etiquette.

> Dpkg and apt have been updated to apt-0.7.25.3-7 and dpkg-1.15.5.6-9 in my experimental directory. Some issues, regarding installation failures and not corresponding to policy, have been fixed. Could you check if they are correct now, and if so, test-run them?
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> They've been running on my system for over a year, and all issues are either patched away or worked around. For example, I wrote a 'md5sum' script in Perl which uses the Mac system 'md5' tool to compute MD5 sums, and which gives exactly the same output as earlier dpkg md5sum. This is because Fink uses md5sum here and there, while it would be better to use md5.
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> There is only one issue left that I know about, and that is a change in install-info. Apparantly, some packages do things that earlier install-info versions would only warn about (such as having multiple menu entries for the same application). In this install-info, this has become an error. I haven't changed this behaviour in these apt/dpkg packages, as I didn't want to change such core behaviour in such a core utility, and I believe this bug should be fixed in the relevant packages, not inside the tool.
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> I hope you all can give me some feedback on these two packages!

Thanks,
Sjors