Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.28
Severity: normal

since bug "#153305: dpkg: --root no longer roots outside the base
install" is over 3 years old, it might be helpful to temporarily remove
mention of "--root" from dpkg's man page and --help output, until 153305
is fixed, as incorrect documentation can be extremely frustrating.

live well,
  vagrant

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.28      a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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