[Aptitude-devel] Bug#683847: unblock: sgml-base/1.26+nmu4

[Adam D. Barratt]

On 09.10.2012 08:10, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 09:15:32AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> On Mon, 08 Oct 2012, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>> > 1) Add a pre-dependency on dpkg such that dpkg is already upgraded
>> >    before deconfiguring sgml-base. This does not guarantee to 
>> solve the
>> >    issue, because the old dpkg may still be running, but it makes 
>> it
>> >    highly unlikely.
>>
>> IIRC when apt upgrades dpkg, it configures it immediately so that 
>> any
>> package processed after dpkg is guaranteed to be processed by the 
>> upgraded
>> dpkg.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. Do you also know whether aptitude and 
> cupt
> show the same behaviour?

CCing the relevant maintainers.

Regards,

Adam