Debian Bug report logs - #7181
dselect: Performance gripe with disk method doing dpkg -iGROEB

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From: Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Cc: kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)

Subject: dselect should upgrade dpkg first

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 11:23:00 +0100 (MET)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.7

When dpkg is unpacked but unconfigured, at least --assert-working-epochs
does not work. There may be other features.

Dselect should upgrade dpkg ahead of the pack, as if every package had a
Pre-Depends: dpkg.

Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 495
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Version: 1.4.0.7
Pre-Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), ncurses3.0
Description: Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
 This package contains the programs which handle the installation and
 removal of packages on your system.
 .
 The primary interface for the dpkg suite is the `dselect' program;
 a more low-level and less user-friendly interface is available in
 the form of the `dpkg' command.
 .
 In order to unpack and build Debian source packages you will need to
 install the developers' package `dpkg-dev' as well as this one.

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