Debian Bug report logs - #8340
dselect: Performance gripe with disk method doing dpkg -iGROEB

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

Reported by: Thomas Koenig <ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:03:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 4448, 6039, 7056, 7181, 10520, 11800, 12667

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#8340; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Thomas Koenig <ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Thomas Koenig <ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dselect ordering of packages
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:02:41 +0100 (MET)
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.5

Doing an installation of a new system with dselect is an iterative
process.

First, the selection stage.

If package foo depends on package bar, then SHOULD be presented before
foo in the selection list.

Second, the installation stage.

When package foo depends on bar, dselect MUST try to install bar before
foo.

(SHOULD and MUST are meant in the RFC 1123 sense).

Anything else will cause severe confustion among anybody who installs
Debian as the first system they administrage themselves, and is very
likely to turn them away from Debian permanently.
-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.

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

Forcibly Merged 4448 6039 7056 7181 8340 10520 11800 12667. Request was from Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Changed Bug title to 'dselect: Performance gripe with disk method doing dpkg -iGROEB' from 'dselect ordering of packages'. Request was from Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:45:19 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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