Re: [PATCH] dpkg --hold package

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> If the main controller for the packaging system does not know this 
> information, what will?

Desired state of a package will be moved to a seperate file outside
status. This can be used by frontends like dselect and apt (we'll add
a C and python wrapper for it as well).

--[gs]et-selections will call a new tool for a while and produce
a warning before we completely drop them, just like the -l and -P
options for dpkg do at the moment.

Wichert.

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