Bug#282335: Deliver us from dselect

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:07:35PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.10.25
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Please remove dpkg's pre-dependency on dselect, thus making it possible
> to change Priority of dselect to something other than required.

Please refer to the discussion that took place when dselect was
initially split out from the dpkg binary package. The pre-dependency is
for transitional purposes, and must be present for sarge or upgrades
using dselect will break.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]