Bug#545366: Am I missing something?

[Takehiko Abe]

> That's what we wanted. Closing this bug again. The fact that it
> doesn't keep track of new packages is tracked in #551638 and is not
> release critical for us.

What about the "it also marks some of them for installation although I
do not want them" part of the original report? That makes dselect
unusable. Is it not enough to be release critical?

Am I missing something? Puzzled.




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[Raphael Hertzog-3]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Takehiko Abe wrote:
> >That's what we wanted. Closing this bug again. The fact that it
> >doesn't keep track of new packages is tracked in #551638 and is not
> >release critical for us.
>
> What about the "it also marks some of them for installation although I
> do not want them" part of the original report? That makes dselect
> unusable. Is it not enough to be release critical?

Why would it do that? I supposed that this was a consequence of all
packages being marked as new and somehow re-considered for installation.

> Am I missing something? Puzzled.

Yes, dselect has no real maintainer. Step up if you care about it.
Our goal is to get rid of it within dpkg as soon as possible (i.e. when
libdpkg is advanced enough for dselect).

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog



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[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@...):

> Yes, dselect has no real maintainer. Step up if you care about it.
> Our goal is to get rid of it within dpkg as soon as possible (i.e. when
> libdpkg is advanced enough for dselect).


Frankly speaking, for other packages where there is no real
maintainer, where the userbase is small and that have many bugs, we
are not that sentimental and the packages are removed from the
archive. Period, basta and voilà.

Who is really thinking that someone will *ever* step up to maintain
dselect?

The only benefit ofhaving it in dpkg right now is to make you
(Raphaël, Guillem) waste valuable time in answering such bugs and, for
instance, preventing RC bugs on dselect to keep dpkg away from
testing.

[Raphael Hertzog-3]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Frankly speaking, for other packages where there is no real
> maintainer, where the userbase is small and that have many bugs, we
> are not that sentimental and the packages are removed from the
> archive. Period, basta and voilà.
>
> Who is really thinking that someone will *ever* step up to maintain
> dselect?

Ian Jackson said once that he would take it over if the situation requires
it... and unfortunately the userbase is not small enough to remove the
package without creating emotional reaction.

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog



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