Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package dpkg (version 1.16.3) in unstable

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Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-query; Internationalization (1 bug)
Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Normal bugs; start-stop-daemon; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Documentation (1 bug)
Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-deb; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Wishlist items; start-stop-daemon; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-architecture; Architecture specific issue (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Other (5 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Dependency relationship handling (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Symlink handling (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Database handling (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; dpkg-statoverride; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (19 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Assertion failure (7 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Dependency relationship handling (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Conffile handling (11 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Symlink handling (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Database handling (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Maintainer script handling (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Performance issue (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Architecture specific issue (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Internationalization (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-deb; Other (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-divert; Other (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-divert; Conffile handling (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-divert; Symlink handling (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-query; Other (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-maintscript-helper; Other (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; start-stop-daemon; Other (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; update-alternatives; Documentation (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Other (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Dependency relationship handling (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Conffile handling (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Documentation (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; dpkg-query; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (29 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Dependency relationship handling (4 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Conffile handling (14 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Symlink handling (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Database handling (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; File metadata tracking (5 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Maintainer script handling (4 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Performance issue (5 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; New control field (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; New command-line option (5 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Binary package format (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Architecture specific issue (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Internationalization (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Documentation (5 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-deb; Other (4 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-deb; New command-line option (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-deb; Documentation (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-divert; Other (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-query; Other (11 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-query; Symlink handling (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-statoverride; Other (2 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-statoverride; New command-line option (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-maintscript-helper; Other (3 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; start-stop-daemon; Other (5 bugs)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; start-stop-daemon; New command-line option (1 bug)
Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; update-alternatives; Other (3 bugs)
Outstanding and More Info Needed bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding and More Info Needed bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Segfault (1 bug)
Outstanding and More Info Needed bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Assertion failure (1 bug)
Outstanding and More Info Needed bugs -- Wishlist items; start-stop-daemon; New command-line option (1 bug)
Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (6 bugs)
Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Maintainer script handling (1 bug)
Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Normal bugs; start-stop-daemon; Other (1 bug)
Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (5 bugs)
Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Dependency relationship handling (2 bugs)
Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Wishlist items; update-alternatives; Other (1 bug)
From other Branch bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (1 bug)
From other Branch bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (1 bug)
Pending Upload bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Conffile handling (1 bug)
Pending Upload bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (2 bugs)
Resolved bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Other (1 bug)
Resolved bugs -- Important bugs; dpkg-divert; Other (1 bug)
Resolved bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (2 bugs)
Resolved bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Documentation (1 bug)
Resolved bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Other (2 bugs)
Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (3 bugs)
Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Dependency relationship handling (1 bug)
Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; File metadata tracking (1 bug)
Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-divert; Other (1 bug)

Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (1 bug)

#432893 [n|+| ] [dpkg] dpkg: Failed install followed by failed remove results in installed state
Reported by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>; Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:51:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in versions dpkg/1.14.5, dpkg/1.10.28; Filed 4 years and 332 days ago; Modified 3 years and 349 days ago;

Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-query; Internationalization (1 bug)

#257505 [n|+| ] [dpkg] dpkg: patch to fix the wrong output of dpkg-query --list in UTF-8 locales
Reported by: Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 22:03:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-query, i18n, patch; Found in version 1.10.22; Filed 7 years and 318 days ago; Modified 7 years and 76 days ago;

Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Normal bugs; start-stop-daemon; Other (1 bug)

#517235 [n|+| ] [dpkg] s-s-d: Add support for capability dropping
Reported by: Nicolas Bareil <nico@chdir.org>; Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:42:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, s-s-d; Found in version dpkg/1.14.24; Filed 3 years and 79 days ago; Modified 1 year and 111 days ago;

Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Documentation (1 bug)

#621763 [m|+| ] [dpkg] dpkg-deb: unparseable error string, probably typo
Reported by: Otto Visser <o.w.visser@tudelft.nl>; Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:00:35 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: doc, libdpkg, patch; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0.1; Filed 1 year and 38 days ago; Modified 1 year and 38 days ago;

Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (1 bug)

#614126 [w|+|=] [dpkg] Make dpkg work as any user with --force-not-root
Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:57:38 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Merged with 614264; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.10; Filed 1 year and 86 days ago; Modified 1 year and 85 days ago;

Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-deb; Other (1 bug)

#291320 [w|+| ] [dpkg] [DPKG-DEB] dpkg-deb --build --owner=root option to avoid fakeroot
Reported by: Sergei Ivanov <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-deb, patch; Filed 7 years and 118 days ago; Modified 1 year and 308 days ago;

Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Wishlist items; start-stop-daemon; Other (1 bug)

#610719 [w|+| ] [dpkg] dpkg: [S-S-B] make start-stop-daemon find out the pid of forked processes
Reported by: Peter Gyongyosi <gyp@balabit.hu>; Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:27:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch, s-s-d; Found in version 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.3; Filed 1 year and 115 days ago; Modified 1 year and 91 days ago;

Outstanding with Patch Available bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-architecture; Architecture specific issue (1 bug)

#606825 [w|+| ] [dpkg] dpkg: Please add mingw to ostable and triplettable.
Reported by: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@ubuntu.com>; Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:39:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: arch, dpkg-architecture, patch; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.6; Filed 1 year and 156 days ago; Modified 1 year and 17 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Other (5 bugs)

#382760 [i| | ] [dpkg] dpkg reports wrong package version and status on failed upgrade of setuid file
Reported by: Corey Wright <undefined@pobox.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 07:48:01 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version dpkg/1.10.28; Filed 5 years and 278 days ago; Modified 1 year and 357 days ago;
#501866 [i| | ] [dpkg] dependencies not always installed correctly in prerm/upgrade phase
Reported by: Paul Higgins <paul.higgins@honeywell.com>; Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:27:02 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 3 years and 218 days ago; Modified 3 years and 212 days ago;
#575786 [i| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: refuses to unpack package having conflicts+replaces of virtual package
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:06:05 UTC; Severity: important; Merged with 577650; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 49 days ago; Modified 1 year and 361 days ago;
#579790 [i| |☣] [dpkg] courier-authdaemon: uninstallation fails: exec: /usr/sbin/courierlogger: cannot execute: No such file or directory
Reported by: Sascha Silbe <sascha-debian-bugs-courier-authdaemon-2010-04-30@silbe.org>; Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:00:01 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 2 years and 16 days ago; Modified 1 year and 274 days ago;
#631299 [i|R| ] [dpkg] dpkg: upgrade to multiarch packages removed locally diverted files
Reported by: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>; Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:06:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: diversion, unreproducible; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0.3; Filed 328 days ago; Modified 327 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Dependency relationship handling (1 bug)

#20471 [i| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: check rdepends on unpack
Reported by: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:18:01 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: depends; Merged with 170825, 217862, 270545, 464907, 481823, 573082; Found in versions 1.10.15, 1.10.23, 1.10.9, 1.4.0.21, dpkg/1.14.16.6, dpkg/1.14.19, dpkg/1.14.25, dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 14 years and 50 days ago; Modified 2 years and 10 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Symlink handling (1 bug)

#514702 [i| | ] [dpkg] dpkg - packages with symlinks to dirs (libc6) can lead to writes outside of the --root argument
Reported by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:00:07 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: symlink; Filed 3 years and 102 days ago; Modified 3 years and 95 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Database handling (1 bug)

#303030 [i| | ] [dpkg] "parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'" after update
Reported by: Francois Taiani <f.taiani@computer.org>; Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:18:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: db; Filed 7 years and 44 days ago; Modified 1 year and 11 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Important bugs; dpkg-statoverride; Other (1 bug)

#563307 [i| |=] [dpkg] dpkg-statoverride fails if wrong group in /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride
Reported by: Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>; Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:57:01 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: dpkg-statoverride; Merged with 592764; Found in versions dpkg/1.15.5.4, dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 135 days ago; Modified 1 year and 100 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (19 bugs)

#21183 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg can go into an infinite loop with --force-configure-any (#2)
Reported by: <steveh@eecs.umich.edu>; Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.4.0.22; Filed 14 years and 34 days ago; Modified 6 years and 305 days ago;
#25759 [n| |=] [dpkg] [U-A] dpkg: overwrites "alternatives" symlinks without warning
Reported by: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>; Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 08:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 80144, 271264; Found in versions 1.4.0.24, 1.7.2; Filed 13 years and 277 days ago; Modified 6 years and 294 days ago;
#178735 [n| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: broken debs can easily be installed
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>; Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:48:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 428057; Found in versions 1.10.9, dpkg/1.13.25; Filed 9 years and 111 days ago; Modified 4 years and 343 days ago;
#222047 [n| | ] [dpkg] --configure should process essential packages first
Reported by: Koblinger Egmont <egmont@uhulinux.hu>; Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 1.10.18; Filed 8 years and 174 days ago; Modified 8 years and 166 days ago;
#235408 [n| | ] [dpkg] debconf: fails to upgrade from 1.3.19 (circular dependency?)
Reported by: David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>; Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 06:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 79 days ago; Modified 7 years and 350 days ago;
#273088 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: dpkg messes up combinations of file diversions and Replaces
Reported by: Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>; Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: diversion; Found in versions 1.10.23, dpkg/1.14.7; Filed 7 years and 236 days ago; Modified 4 years and 201 days ago;
#316521 [n| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: incomplete cleanup of empty directories
Reported by: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:49:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 348133, 538429, 625241, 664822; Found in versions dpkg/1.10.28, dpkg/1.15.8.10, dpkg/1.15.3.1, dpkg/1.13.11.0.1, dpkg/1.13.13, dpkg/1.13.16, dpkg/1.10.9; Filed 6 years and 320 days ago; Modified 16 days ago;
#343578 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: delete available-new when 'No space left on device'
Reported by: mennucc1@debian.org; Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:48:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.13.11.0.1; Filed 6 years and 153 days ago; Modified 3 years and 179 days ago;
#378009 [n| | ] [dpkg] auto-deconfigure is not transitive
Reported by: Ian Jackson <iwj@ubuntu.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:03:13 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.13.22; Filed 5 years and 309 days ago; Modified 5 years and 285 days ago;
#399829 [n| |=] [dpkg] iceweasel: Bogus conffile questions
Reported by: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:33:06 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 407583, 407602; Filed 5 years and 177 days ago; Modified 2 years and 146 days ago;
#448632 [n| | ] [dpkg] force_depends abuse
Reported by: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>; Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.14.7; Filed 4 years and 199 days ago; Modified 4 years and 199 days ago;
#471669 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Keeps retrying after package configuration failure
Reported by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>; Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:24:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: d-i; Found in version dpkg/1.14.16.6; Filed 4 years and 58 days ago; Modified 4 years and 58 days ago;
#539133 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: --predep-package doesn't handle dependencies of pre-dependencies
Reported by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:30:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.15.3.1; Filed 2 years and 292 days ago; Modified 2 years and 203 days ago;
#551323 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-repack: eats an epoch from version number in the name of result file
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:15:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 212 days ago; Modified 16 days ago;
#555824 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg removed a package when told to upgrade it
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:54:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 186 days ago; Modified 2 years and 185 days ago;
#578860 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg treats Breaks just like Conflicts
Reported by: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:21:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 24 days ago; Modified 2 years and 24 days ago;
#580038 [n| | ] [dpkg] Integer overflow in epoch handling
Reported by: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>; Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:00:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions dpkg/1.15.0, dpkg/1.14.28; Filed 2 years and 14 days ago; Modified 330 days ago;
#620958 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg outputs tons of new warning messages with no obvious way to fix them
Reported by: Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>; Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 12:30:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions dpkg/1.16.1.2, dpkg/1.16.0.1, dpkg/1.16.0.3; Filed 1 year and 41 days ago; Modified 130 days ago;
#656447 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg with --root writes log file outside of install root
Reported by: Rogier <rogier777@gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:24:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.16.1.2; Filed 117 days ago; Modified 117 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Assertion failure (7 bugs)

#52087 [n| |=] [dpkg] [ASSERT] main/processarc.c:814: process_archive: Assertion `otherpkg->clientdata->istobe == itb_normal || otherpkg->clientdata->istobe == itb_deconfigure' failed.
Reported by: Athanasius <Athanasius@miggy.org>; Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:03:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: assert; Merged with 54891, 57531; Found in versions 1.6.4, 1.6.7; Filed 12 years and 164 days ago; Modified 8 years and 247 days ago;
#64669 [n| |=] [dpkg] [ASSERT] main/filesdb.c:684: findnamenode_high: Assertion (*pointerp)->name[0] == '/'' failed.
Reported by: Andrea Fanfani <andreaf@geltrude.mixad.it>; Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:04:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: assert; Merged with 80798; Found in versions 1.4.1.19, 1.7.2; Filed 11 years and 358 days ago; Modified 8 years and 247 days ago;
#66801 [n| | ] [dpkg] [ASSERT] main/packages.c:292: deppossi_ok_found: Assertion `checkversion->verrel != dvr_none' failed.
Reported by: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>; Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:49:58 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: assert; Found in version 1.7.0; Filed 11 years and 317 days ago; Modified 8 years and 247 days ago;
#76687 [n| |=] [dpkg] [ASSERT] lib/dump.c:180: w_dependency: Assertion `dyp->up == pigp' failed.
Reported by: Adam Heath <adam@doogie.org>; Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 07:03:59 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: assert; Merged with 78015, 79513, 197800; Found in versions 1.7.2-1, 1.7.2, dpkg/1.14.6, dpkg/1.14.20; Filed 11 years and 190 days ago; Modified 3 years and 274 days ago;
#93527 [n| | ] [dpkg] [ASSERT] main/archives.c:589: check_conflict: Assertion `fixbyrm->clientdata->istobe == itb_normal' failed.
Reported by: Ulrich Schwarz <uschwarz@gmx.net>; Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:33:11 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: assert; Filed 11 years and 38 days ago; Modified 8 years and 247 days ago;
#143307 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: assertion when removing a lot of already removed packages
Reported by: Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: assert; Found in versions 1.9.20, 1.10.10, dpkg/1.14.18, dpkg/1.14.19, dpkg/1.14.20; Filed 10 years and 31 days ago; Modified 2 years and 270 days ago;
#197188 [n| |=] [dpkg] [ASSERT] lib/dump.c:180: varbufdependency: Assertion `dop->up == dep' failed.
Reported by: Chip Salzenberg <chip@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:03:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: assert; Merged with 242799; Found in versions 1.10.10, 1.10.20, 1.10.23; Filed 8 years and 340 days ago; Modified 2 years and 86 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Dependency relationship handling (2 bugs)

#55364 [n| |=] [dpkg] 'dpkg --no-act -i <package>' doesn't find all dependencies
Reported by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>; Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: depends; Merged with 134475, 168499; Found in versions 1.10.9, 1.6.6, 1.9.17, 1.9.21; Filed 12 years and 123 days ago; Modified 4 years and 65 days ago;
#377860 [n| | ] [dpkg] Conflicts is not always checked appropriately
Reported by: Ian Jackson <iwj@ubuntu.com>; Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:48:11 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: depends; Found in version dpkg/1.13.22; Filed 5 years and 310 days ago; Modified 5 years and 310 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Conffile handling (11 bugs)

#89337 [n| | ] [dpkg] during installation of xlibs, xkb/symbols are removed
Reported by: Jan Schier <Jan.Schier@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>; Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile; Filed 11 years and 68 days ago; Modified 11 years and 67 days ago;
#108587 [n| |=♔] [dpkg] [CONFFILE] dpkg: a conffile that vanishes across an upgrade can fool dpkg
Reported by: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile; Merged with 182021, 264790, 330874; Found in versions 1.9.16, 1.9.18, 1.9.19; Blocking fix for 349582: zsh: /etc/skel/.zshrc remains after upgrade; Filed 10 years and 279 days ago; Modified 2 years and 251 days ago;
#148258 [n| | ] [dpkg] [CONFFILE] dpkg: those old conffile/directory/symlink blues
Reported by: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 03:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile; Filed 9 years and 357 days ago; Modified 8 years and 247 days ago;
#163183 [n| | ] [dpkg] [CONFFILE] dpkg: Conflicting package should not silently take over conffiles
Reported by: Christoph Martin <martin@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>; Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile; Filed 12 years and 360 days ago; Modified 1 year and 220 days ago;
#242193 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg asks about one file but acts on another one/or a missing mesage.
Reported by: Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net>; Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:48:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile; Filed 8 years and 43 days ago; Modified 8 years and 43 days ago;
#312846 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Does not correctly purge symlink conffiles
Reported by: Florent Angebault <florent.angebault@agregator.net>; Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:03:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile, symlink; Filed 6 years and 341 days ago; Modified 1 year and 20 days ago;
#330256 [n| | ] [dpkg] delete obsolescent not-locally-changed conffiles
Reported by: Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>; Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:03:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile; Filed 6 years and 234 days ago; Modified 2 years and 251 days ago;
#410419 [n| | ] [dpkg] confile prompts should use debconf
Reported by: "peter green" <plugwash@P10Link.net>; Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:48:34 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile; Filed 5 years and 96 days ago; Modified 5 years and 96 days ago;
#421344 [n| |♔] [dpkg] dpkg: does not gracefully handle symlink conffiles
Reported by: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>; Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile; Found in version dpkg/1.13.25; Blocking fix for 421346: debhelper: should automatically mark symlinks in /etc as conffiles; Filed 5 years and 20 days ago; Modified 4 years and 246 days ago;
#574656 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: [CONFFILE] upgrade changing conffile replaced by symlink gives no prompt at all
Reported by: Jean-Christophe Dubacq <jcdubacq1@free.fr>; Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile, symlink; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 58 days ago; Modified 2 years and 58 days ago;
#574658 [n| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: [CONFFILE] purging conffile replaced by symlink removes target, not symlink
Reported by: Jean-Christophe Dubacq <jcdubacq1@free.fr>; Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:30:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile, symlink; Merged with 648042; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 58 days ago; Modified 189 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Symlink handling (3 bugs)

#316935 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg doesn't properly apply symlink changes
Reported by: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: symlink; Found in version 1.13.10; Filed 6 years and 317 days ago; Modified 6 years and 317 days ago;
#406715 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg should warn the user when there's a dir/symlink mismatch between the package and the system
Reported by: A Mennucc <mennucc1@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:18:07 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: symlink; Found in versions dpkg/1.13.25, dpkg/1.14.22; Filed 5 years and 125 days ago; Modified 3 years and 68 days ago;
#668400 [n| | ] [tomcat7, dpkg] /usr/bin/apt-get: Apt-get purge/remove delete file behind symlink
Reported by: Rafal Kaminski <rafal.kaminski@young-internet.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: symlink; Filed 34 days ago; Modified 34 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Database handling (1 bug)

#71333 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg --merge-avail ignores architecture while reading Packages
Reported by: Daniel Mueller <mueller@telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de>; Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 06:03:54 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: db; Found in version 1.6.14; Filed 11 years and 250 days ago; Modified 8 years and 239 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Maintainer script handling (3 bugs)

#121813 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Should run _all_ prerms, then all postrms
Reported by: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 05:03:00 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: maint-script; Filed 10 years and 170 days ago; Modified 8 years and 57 days ago;
#351573 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: "trying script from the new package instead" actually runs old script again
Reported by: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrvz@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:18:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: maint-script; Found in version dpkg/1.13.11.0.1; Filed 6 years and 101 days ago; Modified 6 years and 37 days ago;
#416706 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg fails to clean up the maintainer scripts from the previous package
Reported by: Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch@web.de>; Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:51:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: maint-script; Found in version dpkg/1.13.25; Filed 5 years and 49 days ago; Modified 4 years and 80 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Performance issue (3 bugs)

#74259 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: cache Section strings when parsing
Reported by: branden@debian.org; Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 06:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: perf; Filed 11 years and 224 days ago; Modified 3 years and 320 days ago;
#179296 [n| | ] [dpkg] [PERF] patch: database speedup using flex
Reported by: Sami Liedes <sliedes@cc.hut.fi>; Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 02:33:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: perf; Found in version 1.10.9; Filed 9 years and 107 days ago; Modified 2 years and 10 days ago;
#245970 [n| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: [PERF] unpacking packages extremely slow on systems with <= 64 MB memory
Reported by: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: perf; Merged with 271072; Found in versions 1.10.21, 1.10.23; Filed 8 years and 21 days ago; Modified 2 years and 4 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Architecture specific issue (1 bug)

#556637 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: support for getting architecture from DEB_HOST_ARCH
Reported by: Jussi Hakala <jussi.hakala@hut.fi>; Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: arch; Found in version dpkg/1.15.4.1; Filed 2 years and 181 days ago; Modified 1 year and 53 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Internationalization (1 bug)

#175370 [n| | ] [dpkg] Use UTF-8 internally, convert to locale's encoding for output
Reported by: Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>; Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 00:48:10 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: i18n; Filed 9 years and 134 days ago; Modified 2 years and 10 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-deb; Other (3 bugs)

#157145 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-deb -b spews out binary garbage when filesystem is full
Reported by: ivo@o2w.nl; Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:18:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-deb; Found in version 1.10.4; Filed 9 years and 273 days ago; Modified 6 years and 331 days ago;
#247035 [n| | ] [dpkg] [DPKG-DEB] fails to -I files when control.tar.gz > 2GB
Reported by: "Christopher W. Curtis" <chris.curtis@riptidesoftware.com>; Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 22:48:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-deb; Found in version 1.10.21; Filed 8 years and 15 days ago; Modified 8 years and 11 days ago;
#617299 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp
Reported by: Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr>; Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 22:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-deb; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.10; Filed 1 year and 70 days ago; Modified 35 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-divert; Other (2 bugs)

#273093 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Unpredictable behavior when two packages want to divert the same file
Reported by: Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>; Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:18:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-divert; Found in version 1.10.23; Filed 7 years and 236 days ago; Modified 7 years and 236 days ago;
#487108 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-divert: does not support --root
Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>; Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:30:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-divert; Found in version dpkg/1.14.20; Filed 3 years and 331 days ago; Modified 2 years and 317 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-divert; Conffile handling (2 bugs)

#363524 [n| | ] [dpkg] Problem diverting conffile
Reported by: adrian@smop.co.uk; Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:18:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile, dpkg-divert; Found in version dpkg/1.13.18; Filed 6 years and 28 days ago; Modified 3 years and 157 days ago;
#492222 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-divert: renaming doesn't work sometimes when diverting a conffile in preinst
Reported by: Durk Strooisma <durk@kern.nl>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:54:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile, dpkg-divert; Found in version dpkg/1.15.0; Filed 3 years and 296 days ago; Modified 3 years and 180 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-divert; Symlink handling (1 bug)

#410894 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-divert should be able to divert symlinks to directories
Reported by: EspeonEefi <espeoneefi@eep.dnsalias.org>; Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-divert, symlink; Found in version dpkg/1.13.25; Filed 5 years and 93 days ago; Modified 5 years and 93 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-query; Other (2 bugs)

#375506 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg --search needs more escaping
Reported by: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>; Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:48:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version dpkg/1.13.21; Filed 5 years and 325 days ago; Modified 4 years and 319 days ago;
#588505 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-query -W fails for packages appearing multiple times on the command line
Reported by: Akos PASZTORY <akos.pasztory@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 07:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version dpkg/1.15.7.2; Filed 1 year and 312 days ago; Modified 1 year and 312 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; dpkg-maintscript-helper; Other (2 bugs)

#584185 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-maintscript-helper: rm_conffile doesn't work when removing last file in directory
Reported by: Ryan Niebur <ryan@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:00:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-maintscript-helper; Filed 1 year and 349 days ago; Modified 1 year and 336 days ago;
#665797 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-maintscript-helper does not remove empty directories
Reported by: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:45:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: dpkg-maintscript-helper; Filed 51 days ago; Modified 51 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; start-stop-daemon; Other (3 bugs)

#202719 [n| | ] [dpkg] [S-S-D] start-stop-daemon: --exec should also check the first argument of /proc/PID/cmdline
Reported by: Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:48:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: s-s-d; Found in version 1.9.21; Filed 8 years and 298 days ago; Modified 4 years and 305 days ago;
#368033 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: [S-S-D]: --oknodo should exit unsuccessfully if there was stuff to do, but it failed
Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>; Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 05:48:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: s-s-d; Filed 5 years and 364 days ago; Modified 5 years and 363 days ago;
#416179 [n| | ] [dpkg] start-stop-daemon --background returns with ppid != 1
Reported by: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:21:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: s-s-d; Found in version dpkg/1.13.25; Filed 5 years and 53 days ago; Modified 2 years and 325 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Normal bugs; update-alternatives; Documentation (1 bug)

#651152 [n| | ] [dpkg] documented oneliner to restore /etc/alternatives symlinks does not work
Reported by: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>; Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:36:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: doc, u-a; Found in version dpkg/1.16.1.2; Filed 162 days ago; Modified 162 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Other (3 bugs)

#122255 [m| | ] [dpkg] Breaks on files that have // in their name
Reported by: brian@cornflake.entropy.net (Brian Russo); Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:33:03 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version dpkg/1.14.16.6; Filed 10 years and 166 days ago; Modified 4 years and 67 days ago;
#578872 [m| | ] [dpkg] --auto-deconfigure makes dpkg think a package is unpacked twice
Reported by: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>; Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:48:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 24 days ago; Modified 1 year and 319 days ago;
#601472 [m| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Program argument parsing is suboptimal
Reported by: Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>; Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:43:31 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.5; Filed 1 year and 202 days ago; Modified 1 year and 33 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Dependency relationship handling (1 bug)

#181491 [m| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: Dpkg unpacks files before checking dependencies when dpkg -i is used
Reported by: joonas.paalasmaa@iki.fi; Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:33:05 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: depends; Merged with 183470, 627412; Found in versions dpkg/1.13.21, dpkg/1.10.9, dpkg/1.16.0.3; Filed 9 years and 89 days ago; Modified 16 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Conffile handling (2 bugs)

#108196 [m| | ] [dpkg] [CONFFILE] dpkg: missing newline in conffiles causes wrong error message
Reported by: adrian.bridgett@iname.com; Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:06:50 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: conffile; Found in version 1.9.16; Filed 10 years and 282 days ago; Modified 8 years and 247 days ago;
#233723 [m| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: it leaves xfonts-base.alias.dpkg-new file.
Reported by: Michele Mencacci <shire@tiscali.it>; Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:33:03 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: conffile; Found in version 1.10.18; Filed 8 years and 88 days ago; Modified 3 years and 320 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Documentation (3 bugs)

#365921 [m| | ] [dpkg] dpkg.log: doubled lines
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>; Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 18:49:43 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: doc; Found in version dpkg/1.13.11.0.1; Filed 6 years and 14 days ago; Modified 6 years and 14 days ago;
#576338 [m| | ] [dpkg] [dpkg] --purge not well described in manual page dpkg.1
Reported by: Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>; Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:21:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: doc; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 43 days ago; Modified 2 years and 43 days ago;
#633410 [m| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-trigger.1: does not explain <trigger-name> and <command> arguments
Reported by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:03:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: doc, dpkg-trigger; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0.3; Filed 311 days ago; Modified 311 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Minor bugs; dpkg-query; Other (1 bug)

#624000 [m| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: dpkg-query -- Do not attach full stop at the end in error messages ending in paths
Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:06:14 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0.2; Filed 1 year and 22 days ago; Modified 1 year and 21 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (29 bugs)

#15865 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: please try not to use up all disk space
Reported by: adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com; Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 00:18:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.4.0.19; Filed 14 years and 159 days ago; Modified 5 years and 34 days ago;
#45480 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Please check for leftover diversions on purge
Reported by: Kai Henningsen <kai-debbugs@khms.westfalen.de>; Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:48:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: diversion; Found in version 1.4.1.9; Filed 12 years and 243 days ago; Modified 5 years and 279 days ago;
#57518 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: should not warn when trying to remove a dir containing configuration files
Reported by: Joerg Thoennes <Joerg.Thoennes@data-sciences.de>; Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:26:47 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 12 years and 100 days ago; Modified 3 years and 131 days ago;
#112211 [w| | ] [dpkg] (dselect?) Replacing packages that have same provides
Reported by: root <michael@daclubhouse.net>; Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:03:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.9.17; Filed 10 years and 247 days ago; Modified 9 years and 215 days ago;
#162541 [w| |=] [dpkg] upgrade does not clear a package's "hold" status?
Reported by: "Branden Robinson" <branden@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 05:03:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 163763; Found in version 1.10.9; Filed 9 years and 234 days ago; Modified 8 years and 239 days ago;
#163988 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Please support installation of hardlinkful packages on hardlinkless FS
Reported by: Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>; Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:48:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 9 years and 221 days ago; Modified 8 years and 270 days ago;
#193540 [w| | ] [dpkg] should provide more intelligence...
Reported by: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.10.10; Filed 9 years and 3 days ago; Modified 7 years and 319 days ago;
#214610 [w| | ] [dpkg] wishlist - rollback capability for dpkg.
Reported by: Andy Baxter <andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:18:14 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.10.10; Filed 8 years and 223 days ago; Modified 8 years and 85 days ago;
#340500 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg should store a user comment per package
Reported by: christian <debian.christian@safersignup.com>; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:03:13 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.10.28; Filed 6 years and 175 days ago; Modified 6 years and 175 days ago;
#381188 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg catch embedded options
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>; Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:49:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.13.19; Filed 5 years and 288 days ago; Modified 5 years and 281 days ago;
#402295 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: please also log warnings etc.
Reported by: "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>; Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.13.24; Filed 5 years and 159 days ago; Modified 5 years and 159 days ago;
#483997 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: please allow for a mechanism to specify postinst ordering beyond Depends:
Reported by: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>; Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 19:24:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.14.19; Filed 3 years and 349 days ago; Modified 3 years and 332 days ago;
#511160 [w| | ] [dpkg] Auto-add Origin and Bugs fields in packages built
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.14.24; Filed 3 years and 129 days ago; Modified 2 years and 291 days ago;
#539617 [w| |♔] [dpkg] dpkg: Add option to suppress progress display while reading database
Reported by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>; Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:57:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.15.3.1; Blocking fix for 537333: aptitude: Option -q doesn't turn off progress indicator, 569515: -o option to eliminate progress indicators; Filed 2 years and 287 days ago; Modified 2 years and 10 days ago;
#553266 [w| | ] [dpkg] We need more triggers
Reported by: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>; Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:54:10 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.15.3.1; Filed 2 years and 199 days ago; Modified 2 years and 199 days ago;
#556104 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: please provides post-configure triggers
Reported by: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>; Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:27:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 1.15.5; Filed 2 years and 184 days ago; Modified 2 years and 184 days ago;
#578783 [w| | ] [dpkg] Requesting config option for multiarch / cross-compile setups
Reported by: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>; Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 24 days ago; Modified 2 years and 24 days ago;
#603700 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg --prune-excluded: remove files excluded by --path-exclude/--path-include
Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:21:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.5; Filed 1 year and 181 days ago; Modified 1 year and 181 days ago;
#608930 [w| |♔] [dpkg] please provide a tool to parse dpkg.log* files
Reported by: Mike Hommey <mh+reportbug@glandium.org>; Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:42:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Blocking fix for 548415: reportbug: Package upgrade information in bug reports; Filed 2 years and 233 days ago; Modified 106 days ago;
#610411 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: make 'dpkg -W' synonymous with 'dpkg-query -W'?
Reported by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:51:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.7; Filed 1 year and 118 days ago; Modified 1 year and 118 days ago;
#626203 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: handle better package upgrade replacing symlink by a folder
Reported by: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 20:00:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0.3; Filed 1 year and 7 days ago; Modified 1 year and 4 days ago;
#627452 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: please provide --deconfigure command
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 17:54:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.10; Filed 361 days ago; Modified 361 days ago;
#636352 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: provide a way to query the multiarch path component without dpkg-dev
Reported by: Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>; Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 14:57:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0.3; Filed 287 days ago; Modified 286 days ago;
#647911 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: create the "available" file if it's missing
Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:06:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.16.1.1; Filed 190 days ago; Modified 190 days ago;
#650077 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: The Installed-Size estimate can be wrong by a factor of 8 or a difference of 100MB
Reported by: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>; Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:13:59 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.16.1.2; Filed 172 days ago; Modified 172 days ago;
#667438 [w| | ] [dpkg] Support file triggers on /usr/local, manually triggered by administrator after "make install"
Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>; Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 04:57:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.16.2; Filed 42 days ago; Modified 42 days ago;
#667665 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: please allow to specify custom fields on --install
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 19:36:16 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.16.1.2; Filed 40 days ago; Modified 40 days ago;
#672608 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Please support registration of additional files for a package in addition to those in the deb manifest
Reported by: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 12:12:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.16.3;
#672945 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg should support moving a conffile between packages
Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>; Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Dependency relationship handling (4 bugs)

#7330 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: support versioned Provides
Reported by: "Orn E. Hansen" <oe.hansen@halmstad.mail.telia.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 03:03:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: depends; Merged with 24934, 112131, 134582, 180316; Found in versions 1.4.0.23-2, 1.4.0.5, 1.9.17, 1.9.21; Filed 15 years and 97 days ago; Modified 58 days ago;
#244418 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: would like to see user-config options result in more packages to install
Reported by: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>; Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: depends; Merged with 421055; Found in version 1.10.18; Filed 8 years and 29 days ago; Modified 3 years and 130 days ago;
#393528 [w| | ] [dpkg] A method for documenting Recommend or Suggest could help users to decide using a dependency
Reported by: "Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:48:36 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: depends; Found in version dpkg/1.13.21; Filed 5 years and 213 days ago; Modified 5 years and 213 days ago;
#436733 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Improve handling of dependencies on arch: all packages
Reported by: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:36:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: depends; Found in version dpkg/1.14.5; Filed 4 years and 282 days ago; Modified 2 years and 98 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Conffile handling (14 bugs)

#32877 [w|u|=] [dpkg] [CONFFILE] Cleverer conffile merge
Reported by: Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>; Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:18:00 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile, upstream; Merged with 48717, 120152, 189805, 247336, 268154, 290854, 294073, 413436, 440640, 473996, 548663, 578804; Found in versions dpkg/1.13.22, dpkg/1.13.25, dpkg/1.15.3.1, dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 13 years and 104 days ago; Modified 1 year and 55 days ago;
#118646 [w| | ] [dpkg] use an invalid DNS character (like _) in .dpkg-* file names
Reported by: peter@killdevil.lorg; Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 20:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Filed 10 years and 192 days ago; Modified 3 years and 30 days ago;
#163657 [w| |=] [dpkg] [CONFFILE] dpkg: should support conffile hijacking
Reported by: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Merged with 213907, 234286, 437409; Found in version 1.10.4; Filed 9 years and 223 days ago; Modified 4 years and 222 days ago;
#192043 [w| | ] [dpkg] [CONFFILE] Please add "overwrite all" and "overwrite all under subtree" replies to modified conffile options
Reported by: Andras Korn <korn-debbugs@chardonnay.math.bme.hu>; Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 19:33:10 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Found in version 1.10.10; Filed 9 years and 13 days ago; Modified 8 years and 247 days ago;
#192981 [w| | ] [dpkg] unchanged permissions of conffile should be updated
Reported by: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>; Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 20:33:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Filed 9 years and 7 days ago; Modified 4 years and 199 days ago;
#222641 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: [CONFFILE] should inform user when a conffile is not being replaced due to local deletion
Reported by: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:48:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Found in version 1.10.18; Filed 8 years and 168 days ago; Modified 5 years and 124 days ago;
#240831 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: option to beep on question asked
Reported by: Tim Connors <tconnors+reportbug@astro.swin.edu.au>; Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:18:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Found in version 1.10.20; Filed 8 years and 49 days ago; Modified 8 years and 49 days ago;
#313204 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: Support to configure 'DIFF' through environment variable.
Reported by: sdfsdf <fsdfsd@matveev.spb.ru>; Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:03:08 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Merged with 313212, 380332; Found in versions 1.10.28, dpkg/1.13.22; Filed 6 years and 339 days ago; Modified 2 years and 176 days ago;
#325328 [w| | ] [dpkg] please add option to edit file on-disk when resolving conffile conflicts
Reported by: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Found in versions dpkg/1.13.10, dpkg/1.14.19; Filed 6 years and 263 days ago; Modified 3 years and 321 days ago;
#361996 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: should check for changed types of conffiles ?
Reported by: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>; Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 01:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Filed 6 years and 44 days ago; Modified 6 years and 36 days ago;
#377143 [w| | ] [dpkg] Please delay asking for conffile conflict management to the end
Reported by: cheak@visi.com; Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:03:18 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Found in version dpkg/1.13.22; Filed 5 years and 315 days ago; Modified 5 years and 54 days ago;
#569140 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Add no-backup options to conffile menu prompt
Reported by: jidanni@jidanni.org; Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:09:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 96 days ago; Modified 1 year and 20 days ago;
#601063 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: please, allow to select which hunks of a conffile will be installed by the new package
Reported by: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>; Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:57:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.5; Filed 1 year and 206 days ago; Modified 1 year and 206 days ago;
#645849 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg should better manage the Conffiles field
Reported by: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:57:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: conffile; Filed 210 days ago; Modified 197 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Symlink handling (1 bug)

#182747 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg should not remove a symlink to a directory unless it's empty
Reported by: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>; Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: symlink; Merged with 287978, 307730, 392694, 426255; Found in versions 1.10.9, dpkg/1.13.26; Filed 9 years and 80 days ago; Modified 2 years and 333 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Database handling (3 bugs)

#9955 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg eats available filename if unpack fails
Reported by: Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@poboxes.com>; Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 14:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: db; Found in version 1.4.0.17; Filed 15 years ago; Modified 7 years and 100 days ago;
#188408 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: Keep the status/available lists compressed with gzip
Reported by: Ivan Todoroski <grnch@gmx.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: db; Merged with 505154; Found in version 1.10.9; Filed 9 years and 39 days ago; Modified 3 years and 180 days ago;
#429438 [w| | ] [dpkg] The dpkg status cache does not provide enough information to check whether a package's state has been changed.
Reported by: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:06:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: db; Found in version dpkg/1.14.4; Filed 4 years and 334 days ago; Modified 4 years and 334 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; File metadata tracking (5 bugs)

#34194 [w| |=] [dpkg] Botched file ownerships and permissions...
Reported by: "R. Brock Lynn" <brock@nettronix.net>; Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 09:48:00 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: file-metadata; Merged with 166937; Filed 13 years and 74 days ago; Modified 3 years and 250 days ago;
#47839 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Fails to install packages if one package's .list file is broken
Reported by: Matthew Gregan <kinetik@ihug.co.nz>; Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 02:33:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: file-metadata; Found in version 1.4.1.13; Filed 12 years and 212 days ago; Modified 2 years and 201 days ago;
#187019 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg versus rpm: rpm has '--verify'
Reported by: Clement Hermann <clement.hermann@free.fr>; Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: file-metadata; Found in version 1.10.9; Filed 9 years and 48 days ago; Modified 8 years and 202 days ago;
#502580 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg-statoverride: support for capabilities
Reported by: Håvard Moen <post@haavard.name>; Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:06:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: file-metadata; Merged with 662845; Found in versions dpkg/1.16.1.2, dpkg/1.14.22; Filed 3 years and 211 days ago; Modified 16 days ago;
#504157 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-statoverride: support for ACLs and xattrs
Reported by: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>; Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 08:45:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: file-metadata; Found in version dpkg/1.14.22; Filed 3 years and 197 days ago; Modified 3 years and 197 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Maintainer script handling (4 bugs)

#8639 [w| | ] [dpkg] Add --force-script-errors to dpkg
Reported by: joey@infodrom.org; Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: maint-script, new-option; Found in version 1.4.0.6; Filed 15 years and 40 days ago; Modified 4 years and 283 days ago;
#39893 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: please add option to ignore pre{inst,rm} script
Reported by: brinkmd@debian.org; Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:48:00 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: maint-script; Merged with 518719; Found in versions 1.4.1.3, dpkg/1.14.25; Filed 12 years and 332 days ago; Modified 2 years and 285 days ago;
#216949 [w| | ] [dpkg] How do you debug a postinst problem
Reported by: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>; Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:33:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: maint-script; Found in version 1.10.10; Filed 8 years and 209 days ago; Modified 8 years and 209 days ago;
#376123 [w| | ] [dpkg] a way for a prerm to postpone package removal
Reported by: Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:33:15 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: maint-script; Found in version dpkg/1.13.21; Filed 5 years and 322 days ago; Modified 5 years and 322 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Performance issue (5 bugs)

#47214 [w| | ] [dpkg] [PERF] memleak in libdpkg when using parseversion() (lib/parsehelp.c)
Reported by: <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>; Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: perf; Found in version 1.4.1.13; Filed 12 years and 219 days ago; Modified 8 years and 245 days ago;
#69192 [w| |=] [dpkg] [PERF] dpkg database is a bit slow
Reported by: "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <dlitz@cheerful.com>; Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 18:07:48 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: perf; Merged with 149760; Found in versions 1.6.14, 1.9.21; Filed 11 years and 276 days ago; Modified 2 years and 51 days ago;
#241768 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: low mem systems - do not load available packages into memory
Reported by: Paul Miller <paul@pinheiro.dyndns.org>; Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 23:18:20 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: perf; Found in version 1.10.20; Filed 8 years and 45 days ago; Modified 8 years and 29 days ago;
#484669 [w| | ] [dpkg] trigger processing runs too often
Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:30:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: perf; Found in version dpkg/1.14.19; Filed 3 years and 345 days ago; Modified 3 years and 345 days ago;
#501456 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: parallel compression and decompression
Reported by: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:09:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: perf; Found in version dpkg/1.14.22; Filed 3 years and 221 days ago; Modified 3 years and 221 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; New control field (3 bugs)

#14238 [w| | ] [dpkg] Please add new tag to cause immediate configuration
Reported by: Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>; Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 23:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-field; Found in version 1.4.0.19; Filed 14 years and 202 days ago; Modified 7 years and 319 days ago;
#33344 [w| |=] [dpkg] Add new field to track package rename/split/merge
Reported by: Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-field; Merged with 65925, 77325; Found in versions 1.4.1.1, 1.6.13; Filed 13 years and 95 days ago; Modified 2 years and 220 days ago;
#120707 [w| |=] [dpkg] package date in .deb
Reported by: Grant Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org>; Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 05:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-field; Merged with 179271; Found in version 1.9.18; Filed 10 years and 177 days ago; Modified 6 years and 88 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; New command-line option (5 bugs)

#107530 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: wishlist: dpkg gets a --reconfigure switch
Reported by: Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>; Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:11:47 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-option; Merged with 110919; Found in versions 1.9.16, 1.9.17; Filed 10 years and 289 days ago; Modified 10 years and 234 days ago;
#134782 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg --debug should have option to pipe debug lines to a file
Reported by: Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com>; Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 02:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-option; Filed 10 years and 88 days ago; Modified 10 years and 88 days ago;
#288778 [w| | ] [dpkg] [DPKG] Add --quiet option to suppress chatter during install/upgrade
Reported by: Danilo Piazzalunga <danilopiazza@libero.it>; Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:48:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-option; Found in version 1.10.25; Filed 7 years and 132 days ago; Modified 3 years and 89 days ago;
#370508 [w| | ] [dpkg] [DPKG] proposed --force-circular-deps option (defaulting to yes)
Reported by: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:48:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-option; Found in version dpkg/1.13.20; Filed 5 years and 346 days ago; Modified 5 years and 346 days ago;
#475487 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Selective --force-overwrite=otherpackage
Reported by: Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:00:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-option; Found in version dpkg/1.14.18; Filed 4 years and 36 days ago; Modified 4 years and 36 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Binary package format (2 bugs)

#84243 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: internal md5sum's in .deb
Reported by: ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler); Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:33:58 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: deb-format; Found in version 1.8.3.1; Filed 11 years and 108 days ago; Modified 11 years and 108 days ago;
#291194 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg should handle tar posix format
Reported by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: deb-format; Found in version 1.13.0; Filed 7 years and 119 days ago; Modified 3 years and 104 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Architecture specific issue (1 bug)

#180128 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg - cross compile patch
Reported by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 14:03:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: arch; Found in version 1.10.9; Filed 9 years and 100 days ago; Modified 3 years and 328 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Internationalization (1 bug)

#48104 [w| | ] [dpkg] [INTL] dpkg: translated field names in dpkg-deb
Reported by: Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@fnet.pl>; Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 14:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: i18n; Found in version 1.4.1.17; Filed 12 years and 208 days ago; Modified 2 years and 10 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Documentation (5 bugs)

#32427 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Please improve "Preparing to replace" formatting
Reported by: sam@debian.org; Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: doc; Found in version 1.4.1; Filed 13 years and 113 days ago; Modified 8 years and 57 days ago;
#71106 [w| | ] [dpkg] [DPKG] "Preparing to replace" and "Unpacking replacement" could be simplified into one message or two complimentary ones
Reported by: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>; Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:34:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: doc; Found in versions 1.6.14, 1.10.18; Filed 11 years and 253 days ago; Modified 1 year and 111 days ago;
#96476 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: advise to restore status file if missing from /var/backup
Reported by: <jeisen@mindspring.com>; Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 04:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: doc; Found in version 1.9.4; Filed 11 years and 13 days ago; Modified 3 years and 179 days ago;
#123945 [w| | ] [dpkg] "subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1" overly complicated
Reported by: Ben Bucksch <linux@bucksch.org>; Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 05:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: doc; Found in version 1.9.18; Filed 10 years and 156 days ago; Modified 9 years and 320 days ago;
#254998 [w| | ] [dpkg] "[DPKG] remove space before ellipsis to match initscript style"
Reported by: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: doc; Found in versions 1.6.14, 1.10.18; Filed 7 years and 334 days ago; Modified 1 year and 111 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-deb; Other (4 bugs)

#182626 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg-deb: building some packages fail due to a setgid DEBIAN dir
Reported by: Milus János <johans@gnu.hu>; Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:18:12 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-deb; Merged with 467024, 578584; Found in versions dpkg/1.14.16.6, dpkg/1.14.25; Filed 9 years and 81 days ago; Modified 2 years and 26 days ago;
#318541 [w| | ] [dpkg] -x support extracting multiple packages
Reported by: ms419@freezone.co.uk; Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 03:48:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-deb; Found in version 1.13.10; Filed 6 years and 306 days ago; Modified 6 years and 306 days ago;
#550475 [w| | ] [dpkg] /usr/bin/dpkg-deb: dpkg-deb: support environment variable to set up compression type
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-deb; Found in version dpkg/1.15.4; Filed 2 years and 218 days ago; Modified 2 years and 218 days ago;
#616614 [w| | ] [dpkg] /usr/bin/dpkg-deb: Please support --fsys-tarfile - to mean stdin
Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>; Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 23:15:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-deb; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.10; Filed 1 year and 72 days ago; Modified 1 year and 72 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-deb; New command-line option (1 bug)

#128560 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: dpkg-deb doesn't grok --no-act
Reported by: era eriksson <era@iki.fi>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-deb, new-option; Found in versions 1.6.15, dpkg/1.13.11; Filed 10 years and 129 days ago; Modified 6 years and 238 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-deb; Documentation (1 bug)

#516915 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: --contents should/may sort file list
Reported by: Mehdi Dogguy <Mehdi.Dogguy@pps.jussieu.fr>; Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: doc, dpkg-deb; Found in version dpkg/1.14.25; Filed 3 years and 81 days ago; Modified 3 years and 81 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-divert; Other (2 bugs)

#30126 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg: dpkg-divert does not work with directories.
Reported by: tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk; Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-divert; Merged with 33263; Found in versions 1.4.0.23.2, 1.4.1.1; Filed 13 years and 171 days ago; Modified 12 years and 210 days ago;
#587971 [w| | ] [dpkg] /usr/bin/dpkg-divert: should support updating diversions: changing the --divert name and/or --package name
Reported by: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>; Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:15:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-divert; Found in version dpkg/1.15.7.2; Filed 1 year and 317 days ago; Modified 1 year and 317 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-query; Other (11 bugs)

#43573 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-query: "-l foo" and "--print-avail foo" are inconsistent
Reported by: Jonathan H N Chin <jhnc%pfaff@newton.cam.ac.uk>; Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version 1.4.1.6; Filed 12 years and 266 days ago; Modified 62 days ago;
#60528 [w| | ] [dpkg] Unknown and Not Installed packages
Reported by: "J�nosHol�nyi" <HOLANYIJ@westel900.hu>; Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:03:15 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version 1.6.9; Filed 12 years and 63 days ago; Modified 12 years and 63 days ago;
#153792 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-query -S doesn't support --showformat
Reported by: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>; Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:03:21 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version 1.10.4; Filed 9 years and 301 days ago; Modified 9 years and 301 days ago;
#181170 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: -l cannot get status to match desire if purged
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>; Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 07:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version 1.10.9; Filed 9 years and 92 days ago; Modified 2 years and 307 days ago;
#192292 [w| |=] [dpkg] dpkg -l prints only installed packages, not all available
Reported by: John Allman <allmanj@houseofireland.com>; Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 13:33:10 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Merged with 257278, 298522; Found in versions 1.10.10, 1.10.22, 1.9.21; Filed 9 years and 11 days ago; Modified 5 years and 54 days ago;
#248596 [w| | ] [dpkg] Disorderly output of dpkg -S
Reported by: Victor Porton <porton@ex-code.com>; Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version 1.10.10; Filed 8 years and 6 days ago; Modified 8 years and 5 days ago;
#330297 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Please provide a way to query the registerd md5sum
Reported by: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version dpkg/1.10.28; Filed 6 years and 233 days ago; Modified 6 years and 233 days ago;
#350820 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg -S --case-insensitive
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>; Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:03:21 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version dpkg/1.13.11.0.1; Filed 6 years and 106 days ago; Modified 6 years and 106 days ago;
#423866 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: please make user operations succeed while root operations are active
Reported by: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>; Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:54:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version dpkg/1.13.25; Filed 5 years and 3 days ago; Modified 5 years and 3 days ago;
#466971 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-query -L should sort the file list
Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>; Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:15:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version dpkg/1.14.16.6; Filed 4 years and 85 days ago; Modified 4 years and 69 days ago;
#616342 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-query: add the ability to dump the entire dpkg database
Reported by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:51:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.10; Filed 1 year and 74 days ago; Modified 1 year and 74 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-query; Symlink handling (1 bug)

#134758 [w| |=] [dpkg] 'dpkg -S' and symlinks
Reported by: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>; Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:33:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-query, symlink; Merged with 198220, 433290; Found in versions 1.10.10, 1.10.27, 1.13.25., 1.9.19; Filed 10 years and 88 days ago; Modified 2 years and 10 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-statoverride; Other (2 bugs)

#83395 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: wildcard support in dpkg-statoverride
Reported by: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>; Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-statoverride; Found in version 1.8.3; Filed 11 years and 114 days ago; Modified 11 years and 114 days ago;
#126505 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-statoverride : add 'recursive', 'dirs', and 'files' options in rules-file
Reported by: Sean Champ <junctionxyz@mediaone.net>; Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-statoverride; Found in version 1.9.18; Filed 10 years and 143 days ago; Modified 3 years and 255 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-statoverride; New command-line option (1 bug)

#84450 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: dpkg-statoverride could do with a recursive (-R) option
Reported by: dparsons@emerall.com; Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-statoverride, new-option; Found in version 1.8.3.1; Filed 11 years and 106 days ago; Modified 11 years and 105 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-maintscript-helper; Other (3 bugs)

#582873 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-maintscript-helper: please provide helper for setting up alternatives
Reported by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-maintscript-helper; Found in version dpkg/1.15.7.2; Filed 11 years and 247 days ago; Modified 1 year and 76 days ago;
#583585 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg-maintscript-helper: replace a dir with a symlink and vice-versa
Reported by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 13:27:13 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-maintscript-helper; Filed 1 year and 353 days ago; Modified 1 year and 353 days ago;
#595112 [w| | ] [dpkg] /usr/bin/dpkg-maintscript-helper: Please provide helper for moving a conffile between packages
Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>; Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:57:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-maintscript-helper; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.4; Filed 1 year and 258 days ago; Modified 1 year and 258 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; start-stop-daemon; Other (5 bugs)

#260952 [w| | ] [dpkg] [S-S-D] Please allow test mode to be enabled via environment variable
Reported by: vagrant+bugs@freegeek.org; Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: s-s-d; Found in version 1.10.22; Filed 7 years and 299 days ago; Modified 6 years and 136 days ago;
#302079 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: [PATCH] setting ulimit from start-stop-daemon
Reported by: Carlo Contavalli <ccontavalli@debian.org>; Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: s-s-d; Found in version 1.10.27; Filed 7 years and 49 days ago; Modified 2 years and 10 days ago;
#571584 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: start-stop-daemon should take options from the environment (or command line)
Reported by: Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net>; Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:42:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: s-s-d; Found in versions dpkg/1.15.0, dpkg/1.14.28; Filed 2 years and 80 days ago; Modified 330 days ago;
#627333 [w| | ] [dpkg] start-stop-daemon: Would like to be able to redirect IO of daemon process
Reported by: Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:09:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: s-s-d; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0.2; Filed 362 days ago; Modified 362 days ago;
#646425 [w| | ] [dpkg] start-stop-daemon: allow to save messages written to stdout/err from daemons
Reported by: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:51:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: s-s-d; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.8; Filed 205 days ago; Modified 199 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; start-stop-daemon; New command-line option (1 bug)

#252288 [w| | ] [dpkg] [S-S-D] Please add option to set nodo status code
Reported by: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: new-option, s-s-d; Found in version 1.10.21; Filed 7 years and 349 days ago; Modified 7 years and 228 days ago;

Outstanding and Unclassified bugs -- Wishlist items; update-alternatives; Other (3 bugs)

#521813 [w| |♔] [dpkg] dpkg: [U-A] please allow hooks after selecting an alternative
Reported by: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: u-a; Blocking fix for 598638: lapack: update-alternatives breaks application linking; Filed 3 years and 48 days ago; Modified 1 year and 72 days ago;
#564955 [w| | ] [dpkg] u-a: Provide a way to disable logging
Reported by: Trafire Arcanegrin <trafirea@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: u-a; Found in version dpkg/1.15.5.6; Filed 2 years and 124 days ago; Modified 103 days ago;
#623602 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: update-alternatives should make sure target dir exist before attempting to create symlinks.
Reported by: Len Sorensen <lennartsorensen@ruggedcom.com>; Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:39:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: u-a; Found in version dpkg/1.15.7.2; Filed 1 year and 25 days ago; Modified 18 days ago;

Outstanding and More Info Needed bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (1 bug)

#659026 [n|MR| ] [dpkg] dpkg removes non-dpkg handled files during upgrade
Reported by: Louis <louis@van-belle.nl>; Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:51:06 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible; Filed 98 days ago; Modified 10 days ago;

Outstanding and More Info Needed bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Segfault (1 bug)

#376201 [n|MR| ] [dpkg] dpkg: can crash when out of memory
Reported by: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>; Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:03:37 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo, segfault, unreproducible; Found in version dpkg/1.13.21; Filed 5 years and 321 days ago; Modified 1 year and 11 days ago;

Outstanding and More Info Needed bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Assertion failure (1 bug)

#227444 [n|MR| ] [dpkg] dpkg: [ASSERT] lib/dump.c:147: w_priority: Assertion `pigp->priority <= pri_unknown' failed
Reported by: Rob Leslie <rob@mars.org>; Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:33:07 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: assert, moreinfo, unreproducible; Found in versions 1.10.18, 1.10.20; Filed 8 years and 125 days ago; Modified 2 years and 308 days ago;

Outstanding and More Info Needed bugs -- Wishlist items; start-stop-daemon; New command-line option (1 bug)

#253265 [w|M| ] [dpkg] [S-S-D] Please add '--pid' option
Reported by: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo, new-option, s-s-d; Found in version 1.10.22; Filed 7 years and 344 days ago; Modified 4 years and 120 days ago;

Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (6 bugs)

#134591 [n|☹|=] [dpkg] dpkg: unable to lock dpkg status database: No locks available
Reported by: Ghazan Haider <root@ghazanhaider.com>; Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Merged with 149491; Found in versions 3.0, 1.9.21; Filed 10 years and 89 days ago; Modified 5 years and 195 days ago;
#515211 [n|☹| ] [dpkg] dpkg: modes of directories are not changed to match the mode of the directory in the tar file in a package
Reported by: James Andrewartha <trs80@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>; Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:15:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Found in version dpkg/1.14.25; Filed 3 years and 91 days ago; Modified 1 year and 111 days ago;
#613428 [n|☹| ] [dpkg] dpkg --force-unsafe-io still calls fsync()
Reported by: Mike Hommey <mh+reportbug@glandium.org>; Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.10; Filed 1 year and 91 days ago; Modified 134 days ago;
#620566 [n|☹| ] [dpkg] dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in
Reported by: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@grml.org>; Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:00:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0; Filed 1 year and 44 days ago; Modified 230 days ago;
#635993 [n|☹| ] [dpkg] dpkg is very slow with btrfs filesystem
Reported by: Nicolas STRANSKY <Nico@stransky.cx>; Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:00:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Found in version dpkg/1.16.0.3; Filed 291 days ago; Modified 286 days ago;
#643602 [n|☹| ] [dpkg] update-alternatives --set should be disallowed from maintainer scripts
Reported by: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:30:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Found in version 1.16.1; Filed 231 days ago; Modified 71 days ago;

Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Maintainer script handling (1 bug)

#18567 [n|☹|=] [dpkg] dpkg: clean environment (PATH, etc) for maintainer scripts
Reported by: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta); Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:33:14 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: maint-script, wontfix; Merged with 631081; Found in versions 1.4.0.19, dpkg/1.16.0.3; Filed 14 years and 84 days ago; Modified 324 days ago;

Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Normal bugs; start-stop-daemon; Other (1 bug)

#376165 [n|☹|=] [dpkg] start-stop-daemon: should use PAM in --chuid setting
Reported by: mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:49:09 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: s-s-d, wontfix; Merged with 406942; Found in version dpkg/1.13.25; Filed 5 years and 336 days ago; Modified 5 years and 9 days ago;

Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (5 bugs)

#21941 [w|☹| ] [dpkg] scripts under /var prevent mounting /var with noexec
Reported by: <slapic@orion.fido.hu>; Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:18:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version 1.4.0.21; Filed 14 years and 19 days ago; Modified 1 year and 125 days ago;
#58859 [w|☹| ] [dpkg, apt] meta-errors
Reported by: Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 03:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Filed 12 years and 85 days ago; Modified 10 years and 302 days ago;
#170850 [w|☹| ] [dpkg] dpkg: Please add support for user installable deb packages
Reported by: "Yury Sulsky" <ysulsky@hotmail.com>; Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version 1.10.9; Filed 9 years and 173 days ago; Modified 1 year and 33 days ago;
#357093 [w|☹|=] [dpkg] dpkg --merge-avail from pipes
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:48:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Merged with 367297; Found in versions dpkg/1.13.11.0.1, dpkg/1.13.18; Filed 6 years and 63 days ago; Modified 3 years and 328 days ago;
#541313 [w|☹| ] [dpkg] dpkg: automatically skip all but highest version when asked to unpack multiple packages with the same name
Reported by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>; Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:27:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version dpkg/1.15.3.1; Filed 2 years and 277 days ago; Modified 1 year and 111 days ago;

Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Dependency relationship handling (2 bugs)

#77324 [w|☹| ] [dpkg] dpkg wish: conditional dependencies
Reported by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>; Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: depends, wontfix; Filed 11 years and 182 days ago; Modified 2 years ago;
#462361 [w|☹|=] [dpkg] idea: allow package combinations as alternatives, e.g. a | b + c
Reported by: Fabian Greffrath <greffrath@leat.rub.de>; Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: depends, wontfix; Merged with 484293; Found in version dpkg/1.14.18; Filed 4 years and 114 days ago; Modified 1 year and 357 days ago;

Outstanding but Will Not Fix bugs -- Wishlist items; update-alternatives; Other (1 bug)

#77828 [w|☹|=] [dpkg] [U-A] users should be able to use u-a (not only root)
Reported by: Martin Quinson <mquinson@ens-lyon.fr>; Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:05:11 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: u-a, wontfix; Merged with 79292, 79941; Found in versions 1.7.1, dpkg/1.14.29, 1.7.2; Filed 11 years and 176 days ago; Modified 1 year and 93 days ago;

From other Branch bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (1 bug)

#666147 [n| | ] [dpkg] set UCF_FORCE_CONFFMISS when force-confmiss option is set
Reported by: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>; Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:03:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.12; Filed 48 days ago; Modified 48 days ago;

From other Branch bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (1 bug)

#651430 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: silence --force-confmiss warning
Reported by: Martin von Wittich <martin.von.wittich@iserv.eu>; Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:27:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.11; Filed 159 days ago; Modified 159 days ago;

Pending Upload bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Conffile handling (1 bug)

#391818 [n|MPR| ] [dpkg] fails to install new conffile with --force-confnew
Reported by: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>; Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:18:55 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: conffile, moreinfo, pending, unreproducible; Found in version dpkg/1.13.22; Filed 5 years and 221 days ago; Modified 12 days ago;

Pending Upload bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (2 bugs)

#670897 [w|P|♔] [dpkg] dpkg: document a locking interface for high-level package managers
Reported by: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: pending; Found in version dpkg/1.16.1.2; Blocking fix for 587351: [libcupt] implement dpkg database locking, 670772: [libcupt] implement dpkg database locking; Filed 16 days ago; Modified 12 days ago;
#672408 [w|P| ] [dpkg] add arm64 support to dpkg
Reported by: Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>; Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:30:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: pending; Found in version dpkg/1.16.3;

Resolved bugs -- Important bugs; Other; Other (1 bug)

#665727 [i| |=☺☣] [apt] apt: [multiarch] dpkg --configure needs a valid package name: ambiguous with >1 installed instance
Reported by: Ingo Saitz <ingo@debian.org>; Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:21:51 UTC; Severity: important; Merged with 667753, 667843, 667897, 670607, 671709, 671929; Found in version apt/0.8.15.10; Fixed in version apt/0.8.16~exp10; Done: David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>; Can be archived in 22 days; Filed 51 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Important bugs; dpkg-divert; Other (1 bug)

#588077 [i| |☺] [dpkg] /usr/bin/dpkg-divert: --add --rename should not rename a file currently owned by --package
Reported by: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>; Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 17:00:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: dpkg-divert; Found in version dpkg/1.15.7.2; Fixed in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 20 days; Filed 1 year and 316 days ago; Modified 19 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Other (2 bugs)

#665050 [n| |☺] [dpkg] 'update-alternatives --remove /path/to/file name' should throw an error
Reported by: Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>; Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:09:15 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.16.2; Fixed in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 20 days; Filed 54 days ago; Modified 19 days ago;
#671698 [n| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: update-alternatives changes not preserved by upgrade
Reported by: auvergne <auvergnerw@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 02:45:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version dpkg/1.16.2; Done: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Can be archived in 18 days; Filed 10 days ago; Modified 10 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Normal bugs; Other; Documentation (1 bug)

#552517 [n| |☺] [dpkg] dpkg ugly/confusing error message on corrupt .list file
Reported by: JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>; Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:54:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: doc; Found in version 1.15.4ubuntu2; Fixed in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 9 days; Filed 2 years and 202 days ago; Modified 19 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Minor bugs; Other; Other (2 bugs)

#669047 [m| |☺] [dpkg] stat(fullexecname) does not work with relative paths for executable / --chdir
Reported by: Christian Hudon <chrish@debian.org>; Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:42:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version dpkg/1.16.2; Fixed in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 20 days; Filed 29 days ago; Modified 19 days ago;
#671460 [m| | ] [dpkg] possibly wrong debug output in rm_conffile
Reported by: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>; Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 09:30:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>; Can be archived in 18 days; Filed 12 days ago; Modified 10 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Other (3 bugs)

#642573 [w|☹| ] [dpkg] dpkg-buildflags: include $(getconf LFS_CFLAGS)?
Reported by: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>; Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:45:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: lfs, wontfix; Found in version 1.16.1; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 12 days; Filed 235 days ago; Modified 16 days ago;
#667037 [w|+|☺] [dpkg] dpkg: please add x32 abi to triplettable
Reported by: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>; Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:00:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version dpkg/1.16.2; Fixed in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 20 days; Filed 42 days ago; Modified 19 days ago;
#670809 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: Add support for debian/source/format (native quilt)
Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>; Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:45:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>; Can be archived in 11 days; Filed 17 days ago; Modified 17 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; Dependency relationship handling (1 bug)

#50563 [w| | ] [dpkg] dpkg: dpkg should alert user to suggested packages
Reported by: Rob Mahurin <alphenglor@RHME114.RES.UTK.EDU>; Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:18:00 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: apt-feature, depends; Found in version 1.4.1.19; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 12 days; Filed 12 years and 182 days ago; Modified 16 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items; Other; File metadata tracking (1 bug)

#155676 [w| |=☺] [dpkg] [patch] dynamic sha1sums generation
Reported by: Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>; Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:48:11 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: file-metadata; Merged with 155799; Found in version 1.10.4; Fixed in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 20 days; Filed 9 years and 285 days ago; Modified 19 days ago;

Resolved bugs -- Wishlist items; dpkg-divert; Other (1 bug)

#21722 [w| |☺] [dpkg] dpkg-divert doesn't work with relative filenames
Reported by: Nicol�s Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>; Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: dpkg-divert; Fixed in version dpkg/1.16.3; Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>; Can be archived in 20 days; Filed 14 years and 23 days ago; Modified 19 days ago;

Summary

Status
- 8 Outstanding with Patch Available
- 203 Outstanding and Unclassified
- 4 Outstanding and More Info Needed
- 16 Outstanding but Will Not Fix
- 2 From other Branch
- 3 Pending Upload
- 13 Resolved
Severity
- 11 Important bugs
- 86 Normal bugs
- 13 Minor bugs
- 139 Wishlist items
Dpkg Program
- 186 Other
- 10 dpkg-deb
- 9 dpkg-divert
- 16 dpkg-query
- 4 dpkg-statoverride
- 5 dpkg-maintscript-helper
- 13 start-stop-daemon
- 5 update-alternatives
- 1 dpkg-architecture
Dpkg Classification
- 133 Other
- 1 Segfault
- 8 Assertion failure
- 11 Dependency relationship handling
- 30 Conffile handling
- 7 Symlink handling
- 5 Database handling
- 6 File metadata tracking
- 8 Maintainer script handling
- 8 Performance issue
- 3 New control field
- 9 New command-line option
- 2 Binary package format
- 3 Architecture specific issue
- 3 Internationalization
- 12 Documentation

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