Bug#6039: Isn't this fixed by the existence of apt?

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:32:30PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I believe that the ancient bug 6039 
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=6039) against dselect 
> is fixed by the existence of the 'apt' backend to dselect, which 
> apparently does everything the submitter wanted it to.  :-)
> 
> Could someone please confirm that this is fixed, and close the bug if it is?

It's still an intrinsic bug in dselect.

Aside from APT, IIRC there was a package called pkg-order that had code for
ordering, though it got removed at some point.

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