On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:33:51PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: > * Package name : dpkg-rebuild > Version : Will be 0.1 > > Rebuild the Debian '/var/lib/dpkg/status' file from information in > '/var/lib/dpkg/available' and '/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list'. This is > useful if your 'status' file got corrupted if the system crashed during > package maintenance, for example. > > I think this script is quite useful although it is not complete. > Unless somebody has serious reason to refuse this package entering > Debian, I will package and upload it.
I'm not claiming this is a serious objection, but this file is backed up into /var/backups on a nightly (?) basis by the cron package. I admit that I didn't learn of this until very recently so it could well be the case that this isn't widely documented.. Steve --- www.steve.org.uk
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