Debian Bug report logs - #4989
dselect conflict resolution screen should mention "replaces"

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

Reported by: Warwick HARVEY <warwick@cs.mu.oz.au>

Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:33:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Report forwarded to debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#4989; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Warwick HARVEY <warwick@cs.mu.oz.au>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


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

From: Warwick HARVEY <warwick@cs.mu.oz.au>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dselect conflict resolution screen should mention "replaces"
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 01:09:00 +1100
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.3

When displaying its conflict resolution screen, dselect lists conflicts,
dependencies, provides, etc., but does not mention replaces.  It may seem
odd to the user that, for example, one required package conflicts with
another required package.  If they've had some past experience with this,
they may realise that one package is obsolete and the other is its
replacement, but then there's the question of which is which.  :-)  Sure,
you can find the "replaces" information by toggling through the information
screens, but I feel it would be much more obvious what was going on if the
"interrelationships affecting <package>" portion of the screen mentioned the
"replaces" relationship.

An example:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dselect - recursive package listing                  mark:+/=/- verbose:v help:?
EIOM Pri Section  Package      Description                                      
  n* Req base     update       daemon to periodically flush filesystem buffers. 
 **- Req base     bdflush                                                       

[...]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
update       not installed;  install (was: new package).  Required              
update conflicts with bdflush

[...]

interrelationships affecting update
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note that the entry for update in the Packages file includes the line:

	replaces: bdflush, miscutils


How I think it should look:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dselect - recursive package listing                  mark:+/=/- verbose:v help:?
EIOM Pri Section  Package      Description                                      
  n* Req base     update       daemon to periodically flush filesystem buffers. 
 **- Req base     bdflush                                                       

[...]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
update       not installed;  install (was: new package).  Required              
update conflicts with bdflush
update replaces bdflush

[...]

interrelationships affecting update
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



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Warwick Harvey                                    email: warwick@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Department of Computer Science                        phone: +61-3-9287-9171
University of Melbourne                                 fax: +61-3-9348-1184
Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3052     web: http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/~warwick


Information forwarded to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#4989; 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 4989-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)
To: 4989-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:01:16 +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


Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#4989; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at 4989@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
To: 3765@bugs.debian.org, 4655@bugs.debian.org, 4989@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Reason for change of severity to `wishlist'
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:36:46 -0800
IMHO, these are not worthy of normal status, but are really wishlist items.

--
Joel "Espy" Klecker    Debian GNU/Linux Developer    <mailto:jk@espy.org>
<http://espy.org/>                               <ftp://ftp.espy.org/pub>
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person He selects to
receive it.  -- Austin O'Malley (1858-1952)




Severity set to `wishlist'. Request was from Joel Klecker <jk@espy.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).


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