Package: dselect
Version: 1.19.7
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,


When I go into Select, and choose postfix to be installed, dselect accepts this 
option:
 *=* Opt mail     postfix      amd64      i386       3.4.8-0+10d 3.4.8-0+10d 
High-performance mail transport

But then when I go to Install as the next step, dselect attempts to remove 
postfix

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  postfix

The only way to stop it doing this is to lock it to a specific version (thus 
the = in the original status)

I would expect dselect to either report an issue when selecting the package or 
to not try and remove the package when moving to the next stage.

I'm concerned this is leaving me unable to update as security patches are ready.


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii  libc6         2.28-10
ii  libncursesw6  6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
ii  libtinfo6     6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2

dselect recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dselect suggests:
ii  perl  5.28.1-6

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