Your message dated Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:15:01 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#45163: A new twist on "dselect won't accept no for recommended packages" has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 15 Sep 1999 17:48:17 +0000 Received: (qmail 22680 invoked from network); 15 Sep 1999 17:48:14 -0000 Received: from jhuml2.hcf.jhu.edu (128.220.2.87) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 15 Sep 1999 17:48:14 -0000 Received: from chow.mat.jhu.edu (chow.mat.jhu.edu [128.220.25.2]) by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.2-29 #37929) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:47:54 EDT Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by chow.mat.jhu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA08563 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:47:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:47:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: A new twist on "dselect won't accept no for recommended packages" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.7 Severity: Important The setup: I'm using dselect to follow potato and want to have the following packages (among others) installed: vflib2 gpg-idea gpg-rsaref I DO NOT want to have the following package installed: gpg-rsa (I still have some scruples about following the silly US software patent laws) The problem: I find it *impossible* to tell this to dselect. After leaving the select stage, I am thrown into the conflict resolution screen with a setup that looks something like this: (from memory as I'm not at home) *** vflib2 *** gpg-idea __* gpg-rsa I move down to gpg-rsa, press underscore so that I have *** vflib2 *** gpg-idea ___ gpg-rsa I press enter, and I'm thrown right back into the conflict resolution screen, with gpg-rsa selected again. I can't leave dselect unless I accept the selection of gpg-rsa, or deselect both gpg-rsa and vflib2. The problem, I believe, is that vflib recommends watanabe-font, which is unavailable. Somehow this unsatisfiable recommends is causing dselect to want to redo all of its recommends checking from the top, regardless of whether or not I've already been asked about a particular recommends. It's annoying enough when I have to re-answer the same question each time I go through dselect. It's downright unuseable when I can't select the set of packages I want to.
