Package: apt Version: 0.5.9 Severity: wishlist Probably the best way to fix tasksel's bug #114721 (which our users stumble over again and again), as well as to remove a common FAQ would be for apt to get a post-update hook. Then dpkg or something else could drop a file into apt.conf.d to apt-cache dumpavail > /var/lib/dpkg/available I expect we might find other uses for such a hook as well. I'd never have expected DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs to be used by something like apt-listchanges when I helped add that hook to apt. Of course the dpkg available file may eventually go away, if dpkg 2.0 is ever finished, but we will have it for sarge, and this hook could be implemented before sarge is released. I could try to implement this, but my C++ is atrocious, better someone else does it. -- see shy jo
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