Debian Bug report logs - #3704
Weird dselect behavior (bug?)

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Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Hudon <chrish@libertel.montreal.qc.ca>

To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Weird dselect behavior (bug?)

Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 10:46:29 -0700 (PDT)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.9elf

Not too sure if this is a bug, but a the very least it's weird.

I have version 5.003-1 of perl-* installed.

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| 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
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  perl            5.003-1        Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
ii  perl-debug      5.003-1        Allow debugging perl scripts (and perl).
ii  perl-suid       5.003-1        Runs setuid perl scripts.

The thing is, I fetched them from Incoming and installed them by hand
because they weren't in rex.

Now when I run dselect on master (using dpkg-ftp on the tree 'unstable
non-free contrib'), the conflict resolution screen pops up with:

 *** Imp devel    perl         Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Lang
 *** Std devel    perl-suid    Runs setuid perl scripts.
 *** Opt devel    perl-debug   Allow debugging perl scripts (and perl).

and dselect complains that

perl-suid depends on perl (= 5.003-1)
perl-debug depends on perl (= 5.003-1)

(Btw, this kind of 'conflict report' would be much more readable if it had
a line saying what the version of 'perl' was.)

To me, that looks like a bug. If I have perl 5.003-1 installed and dselect
doesn't downgrade packages, then it shouldn't complain.

Here are the relevant lines from the 'Select' screen of dselect:

EIOM Pri Section  Package      Inst.ver    Avail.ver   Description
 *** Imp devel    perl         5.003-1     5.002-10    Larry Wall's Practical Ex
 *** Std devel    perl-suid    5.003-1     5.002-10    Runs setuid perl scripts.
 *** Imp devel    perl         5.003-1     5.002-10    Larry Wall's Practical Ex

   Christian

PS About the new bug-reporting system, it'd be nice to have an address
'getmybugs@bugs.debian.org' (or something like that) that sends back (in
digest format) all the outstanding bugs whose maintainer name matches that
of the person sending the mail.

Message #8 received at 3704-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>

To: Christian Hudon <chrish@libertel.montreal.qc.ca>, 3704-quiet@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#3704: Weird dselect behavior (bug?)

Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 01:41 BST

Christian Hudon writes ("Bug#3704: Weird dselect behavior (bug?)"):
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.2.9elf
> 
> Not too sure if this is a bug, but a the very least it's weird.

I think that this is fixed in 1.2.11; could you try it and see ?

Thanks,
Ian.

Message #13 received at 3704-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)

To: 3704-maintonly@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:00:29 +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,
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