The following commit has been merged in the lenny branch:
commit da41337d96b4b2ef0dc3d6473fb8d2d1383839a3
Author: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun Aug 17 17:11:30 2008 +0300
State that the preferred front-end is aptitude
All instances recommending dselect cannot be changed yet as it's the
only front-end right now directly changing dpkg pkg selections. Replace
also one instance of dselect usage with 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' which
honours those selections, though. Closes: #483785
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 87f8e50..65566a5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-08-17 Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * man/dpkg.1: Change reference to dselect as being the preferred
+ fron-end to aptitude. And 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to be used to
+ act on the current package selections. Add references to aptitude
+ and apt man pages in 'SEE ALSO'.
+
2008-08-16 Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/main.c (setpipe): Set file descriptors to close on exec.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8b5224c..7310ff7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ dpkg (1.14.21) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Move lzma from dpkg Suggests to Pre-Depends. Closes: #456332
* Match description of -si option in dpkg-buildpackage to the one in
dpkg-genchanges. Closes: #493743
+ * State that the preferred front-end is aptitude and replace one instance
+ of dselect usage with apt-get. Closes: #483785
[ Updated scripts translations ]
* Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #490076
diff --git a/man/dpkg.1 b/man/dpkg.1
index 8863bfb..6d2fb3d 100644
--- a/man/dpkg.1
+++ b/man/dpkg.1
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ packages are particularly inadequate.
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBdpkg\fP is a tool to install, build, remove and manage
Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly
-front-end for \fBdpkg\fP is \fBdselect\fP(1). \fBdpkg\fP itself is
+front-end for \fBdpkg\fP is \fBaptitude\fP(1). \fBdpkg\fP itself is
controlled entirely via command line parameters, which consist of exactly
one action and zero or more options. The action-parameter tells \fBdpkg\fP
what to do and options control the behavior of the action in some way.
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ with:
Note that this will not actually install or remove anything, but just
set the selection state on the requested packages. You will need some
other application to actually download and install the requested
-packages. For example, run \fBdselect\fP and choose \fIInstall\fP.
+packages. For example, run \fBapt\-get dselect-upgrade\fP.
Ordinarily, you will find that \fBdselect\fP(1) provides a more
convenient way to modify the package selection states.
@@ -652,6 +652,8 @@ Additional functionality can be gained by installing any of
the
following packages: \fBapt\fR, \fBaptitude\fR and \fBdebsums\fR.
.
.SH SEE ALSO
+\fBaptitude\fP(1),
+\fBapt\fP(1),
\fBdselect\fP(1),
\fBdpkg\-deb\fP(1),
\fBdpkg\-query\fP(1),
--
dpkg's main repository
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