On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 09:13:20AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.9.11 > Severity: important
Thanks for your bugreport. > apt 0.9.11 breaks dselect, which complains loudly when I try to update > from sources (I use the apt backend): > > | E: Command line option 'f' [from -f] is not known. > | > | dselect: warning: subprocess update available list script returned error > exit status 1 > | Press <enter> to continue. > > I see that between 0.9.10 and 0.9.11 there is some refactoring around the > command line [0]. Maybe some option has been left over? > > I don't know how many other dselect users are left with me but the regression > is quite serious for "us". Is it possible to investigate further? [..] The attached patch should fix that, the commandline parser got a bit stricter, this caused this bug. Cheers, Michael
>From 17e4360804ffd2b5530b8ceb0e42834eb99e526e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:44:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dselect/update: remove "-f" option as its not being used in the context of apt-get update --- dselect/update | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dselect/update b/dselect/update index 411033c..487fbf2 100755 --- a/dselect/update +++ b/dselect/update @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ TEXTDOMAIN="apt" # Get the configuration from /etc/apt/apt.conf CLEAN="prompt" -OPTS="-f" +OPTS="" APTGET="/usr/bin/apt-get" APTCACHE="/usr/bin/apt-cache" DPKG="/usr/bin/dpkg" -- 1.8.3.2
