Re: Bug#113794: Woody new install, problems with tasksel
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:47:25PM +0100, James Troup crivait:
> > > debian-cd does nothing else than using dpkg-scanpackages ...
> >
> > And there's the bug. Use apt-ftparchive.
>
> Would you be so kind and explain me why ?
Because a) it doesn't suck, unlike dpkg-scanpackages and b) because it
supports things like the new task overrides out of the box ?
> I can use apt-ftparchive but it will change absolutely nothing if it
> doesn't use this "task override" that seems to not be mirrored ...
That's obviously a bug on our (f.d.o) part, but it's not as if I can
fix it right now, is it ?
> And I use dpkg-scanpackage for the support of this old dpkg-multicd
> dselect method ...
Do we really want to support that nowadays ?
--
James
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