As I report on debian-dpkg in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm proposing to deploy a new dpkg status file parser.
It would be bad if someone installed the new dpkg but then the new dpkg rejected their status file. I think I've captured the complete historical syntax as accepted generated by existing dpkg versions, but the existing parser is rather too extensively- written to be able to do a formal analysis. It is possible (even likely) that there constructions accepted by the old parser but rejected by the new. I want to be sure that no such constructions exist in the wild. So if you have a machine which you have reason to believe has unusual entries in its status file, please send me copies of the unusual stanzas. Alternatively, download the executable `perftest' http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/git/dpkg/dpkg.speedup/build-tree/src/perftest and run .../perftest a1 y which should print `done y' and not complain about any syntax errors. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
