tag 559519 pending
thanks
Hello,
Bug #559519 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:
http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=29fe363
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commit 29fe363219625f2a411c85ce065ad47a67077797
Author: Robert Luberda <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Apr 15 12:10:21 2010 +0200
dselect: treat unknown packages as known and marked for purge
This is a temporary work-around so that dselect doesn't try to
reinstall packages of priority > standard that were removed or not
installed.
The complete solution (tracked in #551638) will involve storing the
seen/not-seen information somewhere else than in the dpkg status database
and ideally in a new database shared by all frontends.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4fa7752..08abe03 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ dpkg (1.15.6.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
should now start using dpkg-buildflags instead. Closes: #560070
* For Ubuntu set default value of LDFLAGS to -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions.
* Cleanup some old Conflicts/Replaces, thanks to Helge Kreutzmann.
+ * Modify dselect to treat all unknown package as known and marked for purge.
+ This is a temporary work-around so that dselect doesn't try to reinstall
+ packages of priority > standard that were removed or not installed. Thanks
+ to Robert Luderda for the patch. Closes: #559519, #556889
[ Colin Watson ]
* Modern tar files typically use NormalFile1 rather than NormalFile0 for
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