2003-Mar-13
If need to reinstall a Debian package which the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files are missing, you can do something like:
apt-get --reinstall install binutils
pkgsrc/misc/less doesn't use the pkgsrc defined PKG_SYSCONFDIR. Sent simple patch for using the autoconf configure switch. send-pr: pkg/20698 (jmmv fixed this and closed PR a couple hours later. He pointed me to Packages.txt which says --sysconfdir doesn't always work because then it may make some software install to /etc instead of to examples.)