Comment 13 for bug 48627

Here's a patch for this issue. After investigating the work necessary for this fix, I've discovered that it would be just as simple to call dpkg directly rather than using another script to do this. I know this seems like duplication of work, and I greatly apologize for this, but in the interest of reducing dependencies and keeping things simple, I've got this working in C++.

No matter which way we went with this, it requires some tinkering in how adept initializes its connection with the dpkg database. Here's the patch, and it could probably use an extra pair of eyes.