Control: severity -1 minor Control: retitle -1 dpkg: --clear-selections marks unknown packages for deinstall
Hi! On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 01:55:17 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.6 > Severity: wishlist > File: /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz > Man page says > > --clear-selections > > Set the requested state of every non-essential package to > deinstall > (since dpkg 1.13.18). This is intended to be used > immediately before --set-selections, to deinstall any > packages not in list given to --set-selections. > > OK but isn't there little point in dragging in uninstalled packages into > the status file? Right, this looks like a bug, I've fixed it now locally, targetting 1.20.x. It's very much inconsequential though, as all those selections should disappear on the next operation, as they are requesting to deinstall not-installed packages. > (P.S., better be ready to restore via status.old after trying this, > else e.g., > # aptitude full-upgrade > E: Cannot remove aptitude within aptitude > E: Problem parsing '/var/lib/aptitude//pkgstates', is it corrupt or > malformed? You can try to recover from '/var/lib/aptitude//pkgstates.old'.) Well, sure, I'd have thought the description is pretty clear about this, as it says explicitly that it will mark everything for removal, and to be used before a --set-selections which might also be partial. Thanks, Guillem
