On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > Do you know a perl implementation that works fine ? > > Debbugs' (which is almost exactly the same as dpkg-dev's, differring by some > bug > fixes) passes the test suite.
If you know about the bug fixes, why didn't you tell us (dpkg team) about them instead of simply submitting a bug and leaving us the investigation work? Can you submit us those fixes? > > I thought we were > > using dpkg-dev's perl implementation, but apparently we don't, since it > > doesn't work. > > Yes, you are: #504135 So there's no reason to ask them to switch to something else, they just need to wait until dpkg is fixed and/or standardize the output so that it always return -1, 0 and 1 instead of the full range. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]