Bug#4450: dselect package downgrades
> dselect knows about upgrades (packages on the currently available
> medium that are upgrades of currently installed version) and offers
> the user the option of taking advantage of them. But it doesn't have
> much notion of packages that are available on the current medium but
> are *less* current than the currently installed versions. dselect
> should make a point of preventing users from inadvertently downgrading
> packages, and (in order to ease their nerves) should, when
> appropriate, make the user aware that this functionality is present.
>
> The current behavior, with lines like
>
> *== Req base mount 2.5l-1 2.5j-1 Tools for mounting and m
>
> listed as simply among
>
> --- Up to date installed packages ---
>
> is scary. It should be under something like
>
> --- Super-current installed packages ---
>
> so the user knows that dselect won't go off downgrading things without
> serious explicit user overrides of default behavior being applied.
The options that dselect invokes dpkg with ensures that the packages
will not be downgraded. I'm pretty certain there isn't actually a way
to force dselect to do otherwise, I think you need to invoke dpkg
directly to do it.
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