On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Yann Dirson wrote: > An apt-get dselect-upgrade, when it encounters an error on a package, such > as a package for which dpkg refuses unpack because it overlaps another > package, then at some point later (maybe at the end of the bunch of unpacks > that contained the error) apt-get exits, leaving many packages unconfigured.
This is how it is ment to work, the dselect method has some additional stuffage to make this easier on newbies. See bug #24717 Jason

