Bug#4291: dselect and ftp

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Package: base
Version: ?

Kevin Buhr writes ("Re: dselect and ftp"):
...
> You did nothing wrong: when I installed Debian 1.1.5, I noticed that
> the "dpkg-ftp" had been *automatically* deselected, and I had to
> manually fix that.  I just forgot to file a bug report about it.

Ahh, the light dawns.  dpkg-ftp had been marked as installed in the
base system, but not as selected for installation.  dselect therefore
went for the default, which was to deinstall it because its priority
was too low.

This was three bugs:
 (a) The base system should have marked it as selected for
     installation.
 (b) When something is installed but with a wanted status of `unknown'
     dselect should not want to deinstall it.  I'll fix this in dpkg
     1.3.10.
 (c) dpkg-ftp should have been in the main distribution.  This is now
     fixed in unstable, I believe.

I'm reporting this to the bug system because of (a).

Ian.