Re: Recent version of dpkg-maintscript-helper needed for BPO
On 2014-02-14 08:31, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> What is the argumentation against a backport of dpkg?
>
> Fear of breaking something, be it upgrades or something else. But I don't
> generally buy this as we tend to encourage people to upgrade apt/dpkg
> before doing upgrades anyway.
dpkg 1.17 has removed install-info which will break a few packages in
wheezy. Breaking as in "cannot be installed or removed any more".
This is not a problem in jessie, since these packages can be upgraded
with both dpkg 1.16 and 1.17.
Andreas
Reply to: