On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:54:41PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 8. August 2002 20:44 schrieb Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > > > On 08-Aug-2002 Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > > with the latest change in testing, dselect is in its own package. But > > > > why > > > > does dpkg depends on that package? Isn't dselect just a frontend to > > > > dpkg? > > > > If yes, shouldn't then dselect depend on dpkg and not the other way? > > > > > > most likely so that dselect did not just silently disappear during the > > > upgrade. > > > > Indeed. But does this mean, this non-dependency will never get fixed? > > In sarge+1, most probably. > > Think about people upgrading from woody to sarge. >
What about aptitude? How long do we keep using dselect, anyway? Also, isn't there some debian-base package around that everyone has? That could be modified to depend on dselect (or maybe (dselect|aptitude).... -Lex
