Bug#664893: dselect: no support for multi-arch
Package: dselect Followup-For: Bug #664893 I've said this before, but as long as dselect is part of dpkg, it *is* and *will* be maintained. Thanks you for this. I'm using aptitude now for multiarch but I really miss dselect for it's speed and easy navigation. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.4.0b (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.4.3 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-8 ii libncursesw5 5.9-9 ii libstdc++64.7.0-8 ii libtinfo5 5.9-9 dselect recommends no packages. Versions of packages dselect suggests: ii perl 5.14.2-12 -- Configuration Files: /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#664893: dselect: no support for multi-arch
Quoting Guillem Jover (guil...@debian.org): I've said this before, but as long as dselect is part of dpkg, it *is* and *will* be maintained. And you deserve credit for this commitment, though I personnaly consider this to be a waste of (otherwise useful) time. I still consider that dselect should now be entirely deprecated and removed from the archive. Seeing that maintaining it will (by definition) will now take some significant valuable developer time (something we are very short of) for the sole benefit of those people who consider it to be their personal taste's choiceis, imho, not the best thing to do. Unfortunately, it is now probably too late to drop dselect in dpkg, but that should really be considered for wheezy+1 (and, here, I mean drop it, not allow it to be a separate package--such work is the duty of those people who want to keep it in the archive). signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#664893: dselect: no support for multi-arch
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 07:18:30 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Benedikt Spranger (b.spran...@linutronix.de): Package: dselect Version: 1.16.2 Severity: important dselect exit with an error while selecting the select tab: dselect: error: foreign architectures enabled but multi-arch is not supported This makes dselect unusable on all installations with foreign architectures. Right, and clearly a known issue. :) Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be many people wanting to *maintain* dselect, so I suspect this bug report to remain opened for a very long time, probably until someone decides that keeping an unmaintained softwar ein the archive is not worth it. I've said this before, but as long as dselect is part of dpkg, it *is* and *will* be maintained. In any case it's on my TODO list to fix this, I just didn't want to allow users to mess up with their systems with a program that does not currently fully understand multiarch. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#664893: dselect: no support for multi-arch
Quoting Benedikt Spranger (b.spran...@linutronix.de): Package: dselect Version: 1.16.2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, dselect exit with an error while selecting the select tab: dselect: error: foreign architectures enabled but multi-arch is not supported This makes dselect unusable on all installations with foreign architectures. Well, your bug report shows there are still people using dselect..:-) It's of course not a big surprise that dselect doesn't support multiarch. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be many people wanting to *maintain* dselect, so I suspect this bug report to remain opened for a very long time, probably until someone decides that keeping an unmaintained softwar ein the archive is not worth it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#664893: dselect: no support for multi-arch
Package: dselect Version: 1.16.2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, dselect exit with an error while selecting the select tab: dselect: error: foreign architectures enabled but multi-arch is not supported This makes dselect unusable on all installations with foreign architectures. regards Bene -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL\ set to de_DE.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.2 ii libc6 2.13-27 ii libgcc1 1:4.6.3-1 ii libncursesw5 5.9-4 ii libstdc++64.6.3-1 ii libtinfo5 5.9-4 dselect recommends no packages. Versions of packages dselect suggests: ii perl 5.14.2-9 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
