Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them

2015-08-15 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Control: retitle -1 675748 apt-cache dumpavail omits full description, unlike apt-cache show Control: tag -1 confirmed On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:47:05PM +, Adam M. Costello wrote: > In two years this bug seems to have gotten no attention from the apt > maintainer. Maybe it would help to ch

Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them

2014-09-23 Thread Adam M. Costello
In two years this bug seems to have gotten no attention from the apt maintainer. Maybe it would help to change the bug description to "apt-cache dumpavail omits full description, unlike apt-cache show". Thanks, AMC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them

2012-06-05 Thread Guillem Jover
reassign 675748 apt thanks On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 08:03:42 +, Adam M. Costello wrote: > [Sorry for the duplication, I forgot to reply-all.] No problem. > Guillem Jover wrote: > > I'm guessing you are not using the apt method? Perhaps the ftp one? > > I am using the apt method. I don't reme

Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them

2012-06-05 Thread Adam M. Costello
[Sorry for the duplication, I forgot to reply-all.] Guillem Jover wrote: > I'm guessing you are not using the apt method? Perhaps the ftp one? I am using the apt method. I don't remember ever configuring the access method in dselect, but I just now checked it, and it's apt. > For now, one wor

Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them

2012-06-03 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 05:45:23 +, Adam M. Costello wrote: > Package: dselect > Version: 1.16.3 > Severity: normal > dselect no longer shows package descriptions for the vast majority > of packages, except for a one-line description. Presumably this is > because the descriptions are absent fr

Bug#675748: dselect no longer shows package descriptions, /var/lib/dpkg/available no longer contains them

2012-06-02 Thread Adam M. Costello
Package: dselect Version: 1.16.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, dselect no longer shows package descriptions for the vast majority of packages, except for a one-line description. Presumably this is because the descriptions are absent from /var/lib/dpkg/available. A Description-md5 field has