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Package: dselect
Version: 1.14.7
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
dselect's priority was recently dropped from required to important
(#452652), but important is still a much-inflated priority (so is
standard -- optional would be ok). dselect is not the kind of core unix
tool that policy defines as candidates for important.
It made sense for dselect to be required priority when it was widely
used to install and upgrade systems (in the early ninties). It made no
sense to drop it from required to important now that it does not.
I don't expect removal of dselect from important to be contoversial,
although someone is sure to pipe up and say "but I use dselect!" :-)
Boring statistical justification follows just in case:
Rough reading of the nunbers from dselect's popcon graph suggests that
fewer than 1 in 10 systems with dselect installed actually regularly use
it. Aptitude is used by roughly twice as many systems, as is synaptic,
and apt is regularly used by 6/7ths of all systems. Moreover, while the
number of popcon submissions has tripled since the release of etch,
and the number users of the other package managers has similarly spiked,
the number of systems using dselect has remained flat.
http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=dselect+aptitude+apt+synaptic+kpackage&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2007-04-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
So most people who use dselect already had it installed before etch was
released, and the majority of new installs are unnecessarily installing
dselect. While we couldn't fix that for etch, due to the dpkg depenency,
we can fix it for lenny, and the best time to fix it would be now.
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Source: dpkg
Source-Version: 1.14.16
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
dpkg-dev_1.14.16_all.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.14.16_all.deb
dpkg_1.14.16.dsc
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.16.dsc
dpkg_1.14.16.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.16.tar.gz
dpkg_1.14.16_i386.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.16_i386.deb
dselect_1.14.16_i386.deb
to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.16_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:00:45 +0200
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg dpkg-dev dselect
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1.14.16
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
dpkg - package maintenance system for Debian
dpkg-dev - package building tools for Debian
dselect - user tool to manage Debian packages
Closes: 24514 26554 28701 95579 222524 226932 323606 354999 367998 392432
402901 433477 453400 459359 459565 459815 460021 460309 460708 460708 460903
461247 461327
Changes:
dpkg (1.14.16) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Guillem Jover ]
* Add build-essential as an implicit Build-Depends in dpkg-checkbuilddeps.
Closes: #402901
* Add build-essential to dpkg-dev Recommends.
* Do not warn about unrecognized Homepage field in binary package stanzas
in dpkg-genchanges and dpkg-source. Closes: #460309
* Do not use the enoent helper binary, and use perl POSIX module instead.
* Keep checking for the process when start-stop-daemon is called with
--retry even if the daemon removed the pidfile. Closes: #460903
Thanks to Justin Pryzby for the analysis.
* Make --quiet silence --test in start-stop-daemon. Closes: #367998
* Check current uid and gid in start-stop-daemon before calling setuid,
setgid and initgroups. Closes: #222524
Based on a patch by Samuel Thibault.
* Remove unimplemented --test option from update-alternatives.
Closes: #392432, #461247
* Additionally check if errno is EEXIST after rmdir(2), as SUSv3 specifies
that on non-empty directories it can either return that or ENOTEMPTY.
This fixes run time problems on Solaris.
* Fix start-stop-daemon --help output to state that --name is one of the
possible required options to use. Closes: #354999
* Demote dselect from priority important to optional. Closes: #461327
* Fix portability issues on HP-UX, by not using backticks inside double
quotes in m4 files. Closes: #24514
* Switch Maintainer address to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
* Add README.feature-removal-schedule describing the features to be removed
and README.api describing the provided APIs.
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[ Frank Lichtenheld ]
* Make the -L option of dpkg-parsechangelog actually work (it's
only been eleven years...)
* Import the code from my external Parse::DebianChangelog as
Dpkg::Changelog and Dpkg::Changelog::Debian. Using this
from parsechangelog/debian adds the following requested
features:
- Option to use a non-lossy format. Closes: #95579
- Various options to better control how many entries
should be displayed. Closes: #226932
.
[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Replaced all the remaining code in controllib.pl by new modules. All
scripts have been adjusted to use the new modules and controllib.pl has
been removed.
* The code to parse debian/control is available in a perl module
Dpkg::Control. Closes: #26554
* Temporarily add a Breaks: dpkg-dev (= 1.14.13), dpkg-dev (= 1.14.14) on
dpkg for the convenience of sid users. Closes: #459815
* Update dpkg-source(1) to explain better what the directory after -b is.
Closes: #323606
* Also force version in 1.14.16 if dpkg-gencontrol -v<version>
is used. That way we're consistent with the definition of that variable
in deb-substvars(5). Closes: #433477
* Add support of Dm-Upload-Allowed field. Closes: #453400
* Fix dpkg-shlibdeps's filtering of duplicated dependencies in fields of
lesser priority (when -d is used).
* Fix behaviour of dpkg-shlibdeps when the same binary was passed multiple
times for use in different dependency fields (-d option).
* Change logic of -si option of dpkg-genchanges to include the original
tarball only if the current upstream version differs from the upstream
version of the previous changelog entry. Replaces the heuristic based
on revision number (-0, -0.1 or -1). Closes: #28701
* Some code refactoring on dpkg-genchanges and bug fixes in the generation
of the Description: field. As a result, source only uploads will no more
have Description fields.
* Add support of wildcard entries in symbols files. This makes it much
simpler to write symbols files for well managed libraries but in that case
dpkg-gensymbols can't check any more if symbols have disappeared.
Closes: #459359
.
[ Updated manpages translations ]
* Fix typo in French. Closes: #460021
* German (Helge Kreutzmann).
.
[ Updated dpkg translations ]
* Basque (Piarres Beobide). Closes: #459565
* French (Christian Perrier).
* German, Basque, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese,
Galician unfuzzied.
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #460708
.
[ Updated scripts translations ]
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #460708
* Swedish (Peter Karlsson).
Files:
411fe3d40ce06e1dc6d201e50625a8b4 1031 admin required dpkg_1.14.16.dsc
86ebfef006374f951abcde613fdf2d96 6303354 admin required dpkg_1.14.16.tar.gz
2870242148da9bcbf909f512f63188eb 2160724 admin required dpkg_1.14.16_i386.deb
a7c489c83c7873953a89e1201c6887cb 742216 admin optional dselect_1.14.16_i386.deb
5cef7fa6d037d60ce7ee7ad033a401cc 602706 utils optional dpkg-dev_1.14.16_all.deb
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