Debian Bug report logs - #617625
apt-get man page should not recommend dselect

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: apt-get man page should not recommend dselect

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:20:56 -0500

Package: apt
Version: 0.8.8
Severity: normal


Hi.
The apt-get man page points out that users should use a frontend and lists several, starting with dselect.
A friend was asking me to help clean up the mess that resulted because he followed that recommendation.
It's way to easy to convince dselect to do damage to a system and leave it in an inconsistent state.
Dselect is also a horrible introduction to Debian.

My preference is that dselect disappear from the archive and thus the apt-get man page.
Realistically I'd be happy if we stopped recommending it, either by removing it entirely or explicitly mentioning that it is crufty.

Thanks for your consideration,

--Sam



-- Package-specific info:

-- /etc/apt/preferences --

package: *
pin: release a=unstable
pin-priority: 101

package: *
pin: release a=testing
pin-priority: 500


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2010.08.28       GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  gnupg                   1.4.10-4         GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.5.1-10       GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.5-8          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                     <none>       (no description available)
ii  aptitude                    0.6.3-3.2    terminal-based package manager (te
ii  bzip2                       1.0.5-6      high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev                    1.15.8.5     Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                        4.43-14      Compression method of 7z format in
ii  python-apt                  0.7.100      Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  synaptic                    0.70~pre1+b1 Graphical package manager

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 617625-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>

To: 617625-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#617625: fixed in apt 0.9.15.3

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:49:28 +0000

Source: apt
Source-Version: 0.9.15.3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apt, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 617625@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> (supplier of updated apt package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:42:39 +0100
Source: apt
Binary: apt libapt-pkg4.12 libapt-inst1.5 apt-doc libapt-pkg-dev libapt-pkg-doc apt-utils apt-transport-https
Architecture: source all amd64
Version: 0.9.15.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
Description: 
 apt        - commandline package manager
 apt-doc    - documentation for APT
 apt-transport-https - https download transport for APT
 apt-utils  - package management related utility programs
 libapt-inst1.5 - deb package format runtime library
 libapt-pkg-dev - development files for APT's libapt-pkg and libapt-inst
 libapt-pkg-doc - documentation for APT development
 libapt-pkg4.12 - package management runtime library
Closes: 617625 738933
Changes: 
 apt (0.9.15.3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Michael Vogt ]
   * disable https->http redirects in libcurl, thanks to Julien Cristau
   * ADT: use "Restrictions: allow-stderr and avoid apt-stderr.log in
     debian/tests/run-tests
   * test/integration/test-bug-723705-tagfile-truncates-fields:
     - fix autopkgtest failure
   * add missing canNotFindFnmatch/showFnmatchSelection
     (for the next ABI break)
   * disable fnmatch() matching from the commandline
   * merge testcase for the autoremove feature from the ubuntu branch
 .
   [ David Kalnischkies ]
   * do not recommend dselect in apt-get manpage (Closes: 617625)
   * report https download start only if we really get it
   * allow http protocol to switch to https
   * do not compress .xhtml files and remove junk files (Closes: 738933)
   * simplify code some more to make reddit happy
   * update symbols file with hints from the buildlogs
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