Bug#33394: not a bug?

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:51:48AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Housekeeping ...
> 
> > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:41:59 +0000 (GMT)
> >
> > dpkg --forget-old-unavail only removes unavailable packages
> > from the status file which have Status: purge ok not-installed,
> > but not those which have Status: hold ok not-installed,
> 
> This doesn't look like a bug to me.  Close?

If I recall correctly, the default status for a new package used to be
"hold ok not-installed", whereas it is currently "purge ok
not-installed".  So it may still be worth keeping this around for a
bit.

   Julian

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