Hi, forwarded to the popcon-developers, just in case.
On Thursday 28 August 2008 01:15, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Holger Levsen writes ("Bug#437118: reassign + close ;-) (not fully sure if
this is right)"):
> > I'm reassigning this to dpkg, even though I'm not sure if this is right.
> > Apologies for that.
>
> I don't think it is, probably.
>
> This is based on popcon data. How does popcon read the dpkg
> database ? Does it just read /var/lib/dpkg/status ?
I assume not directly but with dpkg.
> If so it is missing the updates and if dpkg was interrupted or is
> running when popcon goes off (which I can imagine might be due to
> popcon's postinst running it right away), there is no reason to think
> the information will be quite up to date.
regards,
Holger
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