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Bug#195628: dselect: Please provide option for old behavior



Hi,

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:08:20 +0000 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
wrote:
> Those were simply bugs, and should have been fixed in dselect 1.10.17.
> If you can still reproduce such problems, please file a new bug with a
> URL to .tar.gz of /var/lib/dpkg before starting dselect and the required
> steps in dselect.

Yes, the bad behavior has been corrected.

> Do you mean an option to treat Recommends as if it were Depends? (Note
> that dselect does this the first time you select a package; it simply
> won't nag you about them forever.)

An option for continued strict enforcement of Recommends would be useful.
Should I amend this bug report or close it and create a new wishlist item?

Cheers,

Chris Hagar



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