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 From: guillem@debian.org 
  
 Hi! 
  
 On Mon, 2025-08-11 at 22:10:34 +0200, Ferenc W€€gner wrote: 
 > Package: dpkg 
 > Version: 1.21.22 
 > Severity: minor 
  
 > "man dpkg" says: 
 > 
 >   DPKG_ROOT 
 >       [...] When installing packages into a different instdir, dpkg 
 >       normally invokes maintainer scripts using chroot(2) and leaves 
 >       this variable empty, but if --force-script-chrootless is specified 
 >       then the chroot(2) call is skipped and instdir is non-empty. 
 > 
 > The above would make more sense to me if the "instdir" reference in the 
 > last line was "DPKG_ROOT", so I suspect a typo here.  Please fix the 
 > documentation or my confusion. 
  
 This would be the directory that is being set when using --instdir, 
 which --root ends up setting as well as --admindir. 
  
 Perhaps if that read closer to `--instdir` that would have been more 
 clear? 
  
 Thanks, 
 Guillem 
  
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