Re: Bug#2526: Upgrading netstd leaves me `host'-less

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Owen S. Dunn writes ("Bug#2526: Upgrading netstd leaves me `host'-less"):
> Package: netstd
> Version: 2.01-1
> 
> I upgraded my netstd yesterday, and noticed today that I no longer had
> a `host' command; as it turns out it's been hived off into a separate
> package `dnsutils'.
> 
> Upgrading to the new netstd should cause dpkg to warn the user that
> sie is losing `host' &c. and that installing `dnsutils' will fix this.

I think this is really a problem with dpkg/dselect.  It is not
reasonable to have packages always prompt the user when files are
moved from one to another; instead, the upgrade mechanism should be
dselect, which should allow the user to see that a new package has
arrived and encourage them to select it.

Unfortunately dselect's user interface is still rather poor, but this
is already an outstanding bug so I'm closing this one.

Ian.