I forwarded this info upstream at the same time as I submitted the info above to this bug report. The upstream maintainer mentioned he would fix the problems, but it doesn't look like a new upstream version has been released yet.
You're right that my proposed solution wouldn't work. I'm not sure why tar is used instead of cp - perhaps something to do with the handling of special files? It looks like tar is always used in the script when copying files, so I guess there is probably a reason for it. BTW - http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/11/msg00008.html I believe the reason those bugs aren't going away is because they are tagged as 'fixed in installwatch 0.7.0beta4-1', so the BTS assumes the bug still exists in any version of checkinstall that is installed on a system without installwatch > 0.7.0beta4-1 - and, since the installwatch package is now gone, all versions of checkinstall are now "installed on a system without installwatch > 0.7.0beta4-1". You would expect that the 'replaces: installwatch' tag would automatically take care of this, but I guess not. You probably need to re-tag those bugs as 'fixed in checkinstall 1.6.0'. Or maybe add a changelog entry to your next update to checkinstall which closes all those bugs again. Thanks! -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
