On 04/08/2014 18:06, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes ("Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not
> deconfigured"):
>> The much maligned dselect frontend has managed w/o any force option,
>> and unfortunately only somwhat recently I reasinged bug reports to apt
>> (#579790) and cupt (#575786 which I need to follow up on) to request
>> they switch to use selections too.
>
> I have been using dpkg-ftp for a long time now and this supports what
> Guillem says. (Sadly I don't feel like updating things for multi-arch
> so it looks like I'm going to have to switch to apt.)
It's probably a good idea to move away from dpkg-ftp as it doesn't seem
to support signed Release files from a cursory look at the old package
from snapshot.debian.org.
Ansgar
- who again wonders how much fun one could have with MitM at DebConf -
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