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Bug#113616: marked as done (apt and dpkg maintain separate lists of available packages)

Your message dated Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:40:26 +0200
with message-id <20160627113919.GA9048@debian.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#113616: apt: inelegant behavior -- broken redundancy with dpkg/dselect
has caused the Debian Bug report #113616,
regarding apt and dpkg maintain separate lists of available packages
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: wishlist

i recently found out that apt's knowledge of available packages can be
different from dpkg/dselect.

it's my understanding that "apt-get update" will update apt's knowledge of
available package, but not dpkg/dselect.  it's also my understanding that
"dselect update" will update both apt and dselect/dpkg.

this asymmetric behavior is extremely inelegant, and borders on being an
outright bug.  in the best of all worlds, apt and dselect would be peers --
front ends for dpkg.  or whatever the low-level package manager tool is
(dpkg-deb?).

i asked about this on debian-user, and all the responses were the same.
paraphrased:

   "yeah, i didn't realize that myself for the longest time.  it's very
    inelegant, but that's the way it is"

i think we have a situation where alot of people agree there's a weakness
here.  the debian's package management is so much better than everyone
else's that debian should strive to fix any possible problems or inelegance in
it.

is there a reason for the asymmetric nature of apt and dselect/dpkg that i'm
not privy to?

thanks for listening,
pete

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux satan 2.4.9 #1 SMP Thu Sep 20 08:11:05 PDT 2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.4-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01090 The GNU stdc++ library

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:47:58AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> i recently found out that apt's knowledge of available packages can be
> different from dpkg/dselect.
> 

Closing this. We're not going to change that and dselect is basically
unsupported from the APT side, so users of that have to figure out
integration themselves (set a Post-Invoke-Success hook).
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