Subject: dpkg 1.2.11: fairly minor bugfix to dselect dependency handling

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 96 03:13 BST

In previous versions dselect could produce spurious dependency screens
(or sometimes perhaps miss dependencies) if the version of the package
you have installed is for some reason newer than the one available.

Now dselect realises that dpkg won't downgrade the package, and so
tries to keep the installed version's dependencies satisfied, rather
than the available one's.

This should go in buzz-fixes.

Ian.

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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 03:05:35 +0100
Format: 1.5
Distribution: unstable buzz-fixes
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.2.11
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Description:
 dpkg: Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
Changes:
 dpkg (1.2.11); priority=MEDIUM

  * dselect had dependency bug if installed package newer than avail.
  * Added `replaces' to dselect's list of package relationship strings.

 -- Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>  Mon, 1 Jul 1996 02:51:11 +0100
Files:
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 946a89c33dc522bec02adaa259464db2 262017 byhand - dpkg-1.2.11.i386.deb
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 f172dcf0d2d2bb7dff734db39cbe914a 257512 byhand - dpkg-1.2.11.i386.nondebbin.tar.gz
 88afbc556c60df37a1199f492fbb41bd 80782 byhand - guidelines.texi