On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 08:51:08AM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> The first field ("purge") is the desired state, mainly there for
> dselect.  Normally it would match up after an apt-get install, and I
> agree it's weird that it doesn't here, but I'd be inclined to say that
> we should just ignore that field and only worry about the third
> ("installed").

Right, I know what it's for, but I didn't know if this is something that
the buildds are doing wrong (so a problem to be fixed there rather than
in packages, given that local sbuild behaves differently); seems curious
to me.

But it does seem right that packages should ignore the desired state and
only care about the current, indeed.

 affects ubuntu/raring/git-annex
 assignee laney
 status inprgress

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