Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-10-25 Thread Piotr Engelking
reopen 545366 thanks dselect 1.15.4.1 (with dpkg 1.15.4.1) still does not distinguish between new and old packages. This makes dselect mostly useless on upgrades and completely useless on adding new repositories. The only difference between 1.15.4 and 1.15.4.1 is that former marks new and old

Bug#551638: Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-10-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Version: 1.15.4.1 On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Piotr Engelking wrote: The only difference between 1.15.4 and 1.15.4.1 is that former marks new and old packages as new, and the latter marks new and old packages as old. That's what we wanted. Closing this bug again. The fact that it doesn't keep track

Bug#551638: Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-10-25 Thread Piotr Engelking
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org: The only difference between 1.15.4 and 1.15.4.1 is that former marks new and old packages as new, and the latter marks new and old packages as old. That's what we wanted. Closing this bug again. The fact that it doesn't keep track of new packages is

Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-09-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
severity 545366 serious thanks On Tue, 08 Sep 2009, Petr Vandrovec wrote: IMHO change should be reverted until old functionality can be achieved through some other way - unless you can achieve such functionality today. I'd like to remind everybody that we're looking for someone to step up and

Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-09-09 Thread Domenico Andreoli
Yes please, revert that commit. dselect is currently unusable. regards, Domenico -[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-09-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 09:43:37 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-07 09:11 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Since today's update run dselect is completely confused and does not remember which packages are new and which are old - it lists all

Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-09-08 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Guillem Jover napsal(a): Hi! This increases the status file, the parsing and processing time when doing dependency resolutions and package iterations for everyone, and just to be able to show new packages on dselect. The correct solution here is not to revert the change, but to store the

Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-09-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Since today's update run dselect is completely confused and does not remember which packages are new and which are old - it lists all available and not installed packages as new, again and again. And not only that, it also marks some of them for

Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-09-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-07 09:11 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Since today's update run dselect is completely confused and does not remember which packages are new and which are old - it lists all available and not installed packages as new, again and again. And

Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-09-07 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Raphael Hertzog napsal(a): On Sun, 06 Sep 2009, Petr Vandrovec wrote: You can use git bisect to isolate the problem more precisely. My bet would be on the code that auto-cleans up the status database, maybe it applies by error on the available file as well and thus it believes that all packages

Bug#545366: dselect 1.15.4 does not distinguish between new and old packages

2009-09-06 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Package: dselect Version: 1.15.4 Since today's update run dselect is completely confused and does not remember which packages are new and which are old - it lists all available and not installed packages as new, again and again. And not only that, it also marks some of them for installation