Bug#188667: sid: dselect removed gnome without notice

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 09:25:59AM +0200, Gaetan Angely wrote:
> Package: dselect
> Version: 1.10.9
> While upgrading with the overnight up2dates, dselect did remove gnome, 
> gnome-core ...
> The problem from dselect, she did not warn me in the 'Select' phase, as 
> it should, giving me the opportunity to adjust the selection.
> (I only got the message in the 'Install' phase).
> It is the first time I am aware of such a fact, but it could have happen 
> former unnoticed.
> I did try to find wich package induced the withdrawn (maybe galeon), but 
> could not find the offender.

This should be fixed as of dselect 1.10.17:

  * Make dselect do conflict resolution when dealing with automatically
    selected recommended package. Thanks to Colin Watson for the analysis
    and patch. Closes: Bug#151663

Please test.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]