On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Since today's update run dselect is completely confused and does not > remember which packages are new and which are old - it lists all > available and not installed packages as new, again and again. And > not only that, it also marks some of them for installation although > I do not want them (and some are not installable at all - for some > reason it wants to install libsasl2 which is not installable > together with libsasl2-2). I see that it updates available & > status, they seem to contain valid data, but on load it somehow > ignores them. > > Besides that it creates some strange /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i > which is full of lines saying '##padding', but other than that I do > not see what can be wrong, and unfortunately diff between 1.15.3.1 > and 1.15.4 is quite huge.
You can use "git bisect" to isolate the problem more precisely. My bet would be on the code that auto-cleans up the status database, maybe it applies by error on the available file as well and thus it believes that all packages are new everytime? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
