On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 07:20:51AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:23:10PM +0200, Jakob Bohm wrote: > > > > Also, careful examination of the adduser implementation in > > woody indicates that the package really only needs its > > dependencies to be unpacked, at least to add system users and > > groups. The configure steps of adduser, passwd, and perl-base > > apparently only change things not affecting that particular > > operation. > > Can you really guarantee that this will be the case in future?
Not at all, I don't maintain adduser, I was just offering some research on the extent of the issue, as contrasted against the huge number of packages that need libc6 to be available at all times. I do note, however, that the author of adduser seems to have included specific code to ensure operation even when faced with certain classes of broken systems. > > Remember when perl broke during the libdb upgrade? I heard it was nasty (fortunately I was not tracking the affected branch at the time). -- This message is hastily written, please ignore any unpleasant wordings, do not consider it a binding commitment, even if its phrasing may indicate so. Its contents may be deliberately or accidentally untrue. Trademarks and other things belong to their owners, if any.
