On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:35:26AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> For some reason, dselect marked a bunch of packages 'r' during my
> recent upgrade from Potato to Woody.  Some of them are packages I
> depend on, e.g., python.
> 
> So have these packages been removed?  Are they about to be removed?
> What's going on?
> 
> Thank you...
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# dpkg -l python
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ri  python         2.1.3-3.2      An interactive object-oriented scripting lan

It will probably be removed when you apt-get -f install type:
apt-get -f install
or
apt-get install <package>
or 
apt-get upgrade

If you don't want to reset the flag in dselect, try:
apt-get install python

Cory
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