Le Wed, May 21, 2003 at 07:32:11PM +0100, Steve Kemp a écrit: > 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..
Maybe it could useful to add a notes something. -- Julien Danjou .''`. Debian developer : :' : http://jdanjou.org `. `' http://people.debian.org/~acid `- GPG: 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD
