Package: apt Version: 0.8.8 Severity: normal
Hi. The apt-get man page points out that users should use a frontend and lists several, starting with dselect. A friend was asking me to help clean up the mess that resulted because he followed that recommendation. It's way to easy to convince dselect to do damage to a system and leave it in an inconsistent state. Dselect is also a horrible introduction to Debian. My preference is that dselect disappear from the archive and thus the apt-get man page. Realistically I'd be happy if we stopped recommending it, either by removing it entirely or explicitly mentioning that it is crufty. Thanks for your consideration, --Sam -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/apt/preferences -- package: * pin: release a=unstable pin-priority: 101 package: * pin: release a=testing pin-priority: 500 -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.5.1-10 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.5 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.100 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.70~pre1+b1 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
