On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I really hope Ian fixes this sometime soon; I you know how dpkg stores > all relations and packages it should not be that hard I think.
There was a long thread on the -dpkg list where I argue that this is not a 'bug' at least not something that should just be 'fixed'. Basically it boils down to it being a feature of the packaging system that you can unpack things in any order and there is no point where you can check reverse depends that it would not be 'too late'. Jason
