Hi, Rather than complaining about dpkg, why not either use the reportbug command or look at the BTS? There is no reason why people here should be reading about your dpkg troubles when such discussion should go to the bug tracking system or a Debian mailing list. I've been quiet about the last few messages you posted about dpkg and Emacs being broken, but I am tired of reading about why apparently you can't report a bug or at least look and see if a bug report is already opened. The chances are that Debian is aware of the problem and it will be fixed. I've seen at least one major dpkg upgrade recently announced on the debian-devel-announce list. Also, if you're going to run known unstable software, that's the chance you take. Things will break for no reason as you're clearly warned if you read about the Debian releases. I had the apt-listchanges package break on my system, but other than that, I've had no problems with Debian unstable. You really should be reporting bugs against the Emacs or dpkg packages. I don't run Emacs and haven't tried to upgrade it, but I've had no problem upgrading gcc and most other packages.
