If I run: dpkg --set-selections < selections.old dpkg --get-selections > selections.new I expect the two files selections.* to be equal. However, selections.new contains some additional lines marked "deinstall".
Then, I tried to install the package locales (which I removed accidentally) with dselect. But the [I]nstall step in dselect returns without doing any work. How can this be explained? I should mention that I am struck by bug 154670 (multicd upgrade with dselect from 2.2 to 3.0) and the proposed workaround (1. apt-get install dpkg ; 2. apt-get install apt ; ...) did not work for me. (Step 1 led to E: Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend ) So, my system is running fine, but completely static :-( (I can not install potato packages, nor upgrade to woody.)
