Package: apt Version: 0.3.18 I've just installed potato (2.2.8-2000-03-09) and updated (2000-03-30) so all I have is the base system. When I installed apache, apt-get decides I need perl-5.004 and perl-5.004-doc while all apache depends on is perl | perl5. As I have perl-5.005-base installed, I'd expect that perl-5.005 would get installed. I most certainly wouldn't expect the docs to get installed as well. When doing the same thing with dselect use apt as its access method this does not happen.
bilbo:~# apt-get --simulate install apache [...] The following NEW packages will be installed: apache apache-common mime-support perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-doc [...] bilbo:~# dpkg -l | grep perl ii perl-5.005-bas 5.005.03-7 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister ii perl-base 5.005.03-1.1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base The output that installing via dselect (using apt as access method!) [...] The following NEW packages will be installed: apache apache-common mime-support perl-5.005 Dependencies ldso: 1.9.11-5 libc6: 2.1.3-7 libstdc++2.10: 2.95.2-8 -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
