Bug#914515: dpkg: please provide an interface to bootstrap dpkg from zero

2019-03-15 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Guillem, Quoting Guillem Jover (2019-03-15 05:22:32) > On Sat, 2018-11-24 at 10:24:09 +0100, Johannes 'josch' Schauer wrote: > > lintian recently tagged mmdebstrap with uses-dpkg-database-directly because > > mmdebstrap contains the string "/var/lib/dpkg" in several places. Instead > > of overw

Bug#914515: dpkg: please provide an interface to bootstrap dpkg from zero

2019-03-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2018-11-24 at 10:24:09 +0100, Johannes 'josch' Schauer wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.2 > Severity: wishlist > lintian recently tagged mmdebstrap with uses-dpkg-database-directly > because mmdebstrap contains the string "/var/lib/dpkg" in several > places. Instead of overwriti

Bug#914515: dpkg: please provide an interface to bootstrap dpkg from zero

2018-11-24 Thread Johannes 'josch' Schauer
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.2 Severity: wishlist Hi, lintian recently tagged mmdebstrap with uses-dpkg-database-directly because mmdebstrap contains the string "/var/lib/dpkg" in several places. Instead of overwriting the lintian tag in mmdebstrap, dpkg could also gain an interface which avoids m