Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

[Marco d'Itri]

On Mar 01, Russ Allbery  wrote:

> The situation with refcounting seems much less fragile than the situation
> without refcounting to me.
I totally agree.

Also, why does refcounting have to be "perfect"?
What would break if it did not actually check that the two files 
provided by the same package for different architectures are identical?

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Marco


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Re: Multiarch file overlap summary and proposal

[Russ Allbery]

m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> On Mar 01, Russ Allbery  wrote:

>> The situation with refcounting seems much less fragile than the situation
>> without refcounting to me.

> I totally agree.

> Also, why does refcounting have to be "perfect"?
> What would break if it did not actually check that the two files 
> provided by the same package for different architectures are identical?

Well, it would break most of the things that make it less fragile.  :)

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Re: Bug#481823: dpkg: check rdepends on unpack

[Jonathan Nieder]

John Hendrickson wrote:

> unsure how to file this.  checking rdeps on a list (while unpacking
> or ...) is checking sorting so...

No.  Please don't write to unrelated bugs.

Thanks for your interest,
Jonathan


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