Comment 6 for bug 658768

Jean,

Thanks for the pointers, but as you can see below, I managed to have both old ubuntu-sso-client and old dpkg but the update went just fine. Not sure how to force the update order when using dpkg...

yadda@yadda-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude show ubuntu-sso-client
Package: ubuntu-sso-client
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.99.4-0ubuntu1

yadda@yadda-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude show dpkg
Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.15.5.6ubuntu4

yadda@yadda-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-sso-client
The following packages will be upgraded:
  dpkg ubuntu-sso-client
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2,101kB of archives. After unpacking 692kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 142445 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4 (using .../dpkg_1.15.8.4ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dpkg (1.15.8.4ubuntu3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg ...
(Reading database ... 142453 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ubuntu-sso-client 0.99.4-0ubuntu1 (using .../ubuntu-sso-client_1.0.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Moving obsolete conffile /etc/xdg/ubuntu-sso/oauth_registration.d/ubuntuone out of the way...
Moving obsolete conffile /etc/xdg/ubuntu-sso/oauth_urls out of the way...
Unpacking replacement ubuntu-sso-client ...
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/xdg/ubuntu-sso/oauth_registration.d': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/xdg/ubuntu-sso': Directory not empty
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up ubuntu-sso-client (1.0.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/xdg/ubuntu-sso/oauth_registration.d/ubuntuone ...
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/xdg/ubuntu-sso/oauth_urls ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...

Any other ideas how to verify this change, besides the obvious correctness of the change to the debian/control file?

Thanks!