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python-central package

  1. Bug #205470
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 205470

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 205470] Re: python-central crash on upgrade (was: python2.4-minimal could not be uninstalled)

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:53:45AM -0000, James Westby wrote:

> where the call to DebPackage looks for the /var/lib/dpkg/package.list
> file. The read_dpkg_status() function reads /var/lib/dpkg/status for the
> packages that depend on python-central to get their requested python
> versions.

> I don't know how dpkg handles these files, if you are removing a package
> is there a window in which the files are removed (in particular
> /var/lib/dpkg/package.list), but the package is still listed in
> /var/lib/dpkg/status?

Packages that are in state "rc" (removed, config-files) are certainly
present in /var/lib/dpkg/status but may have an empty
/var/lib/dpkg/info/$package.list if the package ships no conffiles but has
a postrm script.

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