Bug#84851: apt-get -d -y dselect-upgrade should not lock the dpkg database

[Jon Nelson <jnelson@boa.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: normal

apt-get -d -y dselect-upgrade should not lock the dpkg database

It's not going to use the DB, why is it locked?


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux digriz 2.2.18ext3 #2 Thu Jan 4 21:00:29 CST 2001 i586

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2-6       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library