Re: Bug#696932: dselect: doesn't show extended description in lower pane

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Control: reassign -1 apt
Control: forcemerge -1 675748
Control: affects -1 dselect

On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 10:48:44 -0500, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote:
> Package: dselect
> Version: 1.16.9
> Severity: important

> I did a clean install from wheezy DI beta4, then installed dselect
> via apt-get install dselect.
> 
> When I started dselect on the linux console, the lower pane did not show
> the extended description.  Only the package name and its brief
> description are shown, the remainder of the lower pane is filled with
> whitespace.
> 
> I tried using the "i" command to toggle the verbosity of the display in
> the lower pane, the dependency information is then cycled through as
> occurs normally, however, the extended description is not included in
> any of the cycled through displays.
> 
> The only locale that I have installed is en_us.utf8, and I have not made
> any other configuration changes after the install.
> 
> Note, I am submitting this bug from my squeeze system, however, this bug
> is against the wheezy version.

This is a problem with the dselect apt method's call to
«apt-cache dumpavail», thus the reassignment.

Thanks,
Guillem