Bill Hogan writes ("Re: dpkg 1.1.3 and sysvinit-2.59-2.deb"):
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> Is it safe to use dpkg-1.1.3 with Debian-0.93?
More or less :-). You can do it, but you shouldn't in general install
the unstable versions of things unless you're prepared to live with
disasters and fix problems yourself.
That said, there haven't been any really dire bugs in dpkg recently.
Ian.