Hi! On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 08:04:58 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Would it be possible in the long term for dpkg to stop caring about > > "available" altogether (leaving it to dselect)? > > Yes, it's more or less the plan. We've just changed dpkg to not > parse/write it for most of the commands and I wanted to discuss with > guillem why he kept it for plain package install (archivefiles() still > passes the available flag to modstatdb_init). > > See commits fb49e131ef32039277c538f759ab19c1ff22e8fd, > 9c01b373009ac462afbdb9375abd2c7b9abc19d5.
The changes I introduced were intended to not change current behaviour, that's why they still parse the available file in some cases. That's the case for several query commands, for install it's because it has always recorded the newly installed package in the available file too. The possibility to stop doing that is still pending a discussion with the frontend developers, which I have queued with several others for after I've cleared up some pending things first. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
