Bug#25836: dpkg: update should be smarter
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.23.2
The update methods should ask whether you want to merge to the available
instead of always clearing it. It would be very nice, especially when one
has more than one CDs with the packages, which is the case of hamm
distribution.
It would also help in the cases when you have installed some local packages
(like kernel image) -- updating now results in "obsolete" packages.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux pandora 2.0.35 #1 Sat Aug 1 17:24:40 CEST 1998 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.0.7t-1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
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