Debian Bug report logs - #2834
dselect loses state if it can't find a pre-dependency

Package: dselect; Maintainer for dselect is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dselect is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 20:33:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com:
Bug#2834; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>:
New bug report received and forwarded to list. (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#2834; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer):
Extra info received and forwarded to maintainer. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 2834-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)
To: 2834-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:00:04 +0100 (CET)
This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer


Changed Bug title. Request was from Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dselect'. Request was from Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>:
You have taken responsibility. (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #19 received at 2834-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca>
To: 2834-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: impossible bug
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:17:01 -0600
Hi,

The gist of this bug is that dselect forgot how it should access the 
archive when a package was taken off "hold."

However, that does not appear to be possible because the access 
information is written to disk immediately (see: urq_setup(void) in 
method.cc and writecurrentopt() in methparse.cc) then only read 
(originally noted in 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=2834;msg=32) from disk 
as part of the Access, Update and Install codepaths[1]. IOW, no code in 
the Select codepath can affect archive access details.

Factor in the submitters claim that, "there are relatively few glitches 
in the beta trees [of ten+ years ago!]" closing this bug seems 
appropriate.


- Bruce

[1] see:
methparse.cc:readmethods()
method.cc:ensureoptions() and its users



Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:01:56 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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