Bug#27646: marked as done (apt: dpkg --merge-avail ?)
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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 04:05:42 -0400
From: Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu>
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Subject: apt: dpkg --merge-avail ?
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How about having apt-get call dpkg --merge-avail on each of the Package
files it pulls down after an update? This is very handy when doing a dpkg
-s on a package you don't have installed, which I do fairly often.
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