On Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:31:38 CET Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > On Wednesday, 21 December 2022 11:42:17 CET Diederik de Haas wrote: > > > I think they above quoted script is absolutely horrific. > > > > I made that statement for 2 reasons: > > 1) It tries do a dist-upgrade 'at all cost' (imo ofc) > > 2) `dpkg --set-selection` completely messes up APT's 'database' wrt > > manually and automatically installed packages ... which in turn > > causes the need to full-/dist-upgrade. > > I made no statement at all about this script. So in case you were > assuming that I somehow intended to justify it, That was not my intention. Sorry if I made it appear that way. If I want to address an issue to someone personally, I'd put that person in the To: field, like I have done now. If I want to address the 'general public', I sent it to the list. The `dpkg --set-selection` command imo 'messes up' the packages state as it they all get marked as manually installed and therefor it was for me related to what I said above that in my previous mail.
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