Subject: Bug#4200: dpkg-deb -f asks bizarre questions

From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 01:26:08 -0500 (CDT)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.5

It's pretty obvious what's happening:

primer[~/incoming]$ dpkg-deb -f netstd_2.06-1_m68k.deb
PACKAGE: netstd
VERSION: 2.06-1
ARCHITECTURE: m68k
SECTION: net
PRIORITY: standard
MAINTAINER: Peter Tobias <[email-masked]>
DEPENDS: netbase (>=2.00), libc5 (>=5.2.18-6), ncurses3.0, cpp, libreadline2
OPTIONAL: bind, wu-ftpd, mail-transport-agent
DESCRIPTION: Networking binaries and daemons for Linux
 The netstd package provides you with the standard networking services
 (server and clients).  This includes services like ftp, telnet, nfs,
 pcnfsd, bootp, tftp, finger, pop, rsh, rlogin, SLIP and others.
rm: remove `/tmp/22865aaa/conffiles', overriding mode 0444? y
rm: remove `/tmp/22865aaa/preinst', overriding mode 0555? y
rm: remove `/tmp/22865aaa/prerm', overriding mode 0555? y
rm: remove `/tmp/22865aaa/postinst', overriding mode 0555? y
rm: remove `/tmp/22865aaa/postrm', overriding mode 0555? y