Bug#269500: dpkg: dselect's 'delete downloaded .debs ?' has wrong default

[Siward de Groot <siward@wanadoo.nl>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.21
Severity: normal

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.23
release: testing

'delete downloaded .debs ?' has wrong default

after installing packages with dselect,
 user is presented with question 'do you want to delete any
downloaded .debs'
   (or something like it),
 answer to this question defaults to Y ;
 because dselect is sometimes slow on my machine,
   and keyboard buffer is not flushed when this question is
asked,
   this has caused me loss of a couple of hours of
downloads.
i would like this question to default to no,
 because it is safest choice,
 and because if inadvertently agreed to, it can be easily
undone.
current situation works by paying extra attention,
  but is a bit clumsy and error-prone.



-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux Si 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-11.5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5            5.2.20020112a-7   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library