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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
>> I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian=
=20
>> distribution.
>=20
> Ok.  Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it will
> be removed from the distribution in a few days.


Is there any useful functionality actually provided by having dpkg for
Cygwin? If there is I'll have a go, but if it's just a toy that happens
to compile, but you can't actually do anything useful with, I don't see
the point.


Max.


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