Phillip Susi, I never claimed it did. But I may want to lock the /var/lib/dpkg/lock beforehand, so that system is guaranteed to be unchanged before I launch apt-get in a script. So I think the status change you made, and the justification you gave is invalid.
Phillip Susi, I never claimed it did. But I may want to lock the /var/lib/dpkg/lock beforehand, so that system is guaranteed to be unchanged before I launch apt-get in a script. So I think the status change you made, and the justification you gave is invalid.