On 2023-10-06 22:32 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:42:56PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes:
>>
>> > Yeah, usrmerge is a bit wonky in these early stages.
>>
>> $ apt-get changelog usrmerge | tail -n2
>> -- Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:42:44 +0100
>> Fetched 11.0 kB in 0s (58.9 kB/s)
>>
>> Not what I'd call 'early' stages.
>
> It is for Debian, when the maintainer of dpkg is strongly opposed
> to, and refuses to co-operate with, anything related to usrmerge.
>
> It got done years ago in Ubuntu, and their dpkg doesn't have this
> issue, as they've carried patches for that for all those years.
Ubuntu may have patched out the dpkg complaints about usrmerge, but they
have _not_ added proper support for it. For instance, the problem
mentioned by the OP is present in Ubuntu's dpkg.
Cheers,
Sven
