Debian bug report logs - #1705 dselect has a strange Package: dpkg ; Reported by: Raul Miller ; 12 days old. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From tad.micro.umn.edu!rdm Thu Oct 19 11:26:35 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t5zfm-0002PaC; Thu, 19 Oct 95 11:26 PDT Received: from rdm.legislate.com ([192.77.155.13]) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA11320 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 19 Oct 1995 11:26:11 -0700 Received: by rdm.legislate.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 19 Oct 95 14:26 EDT Message-Id: Date: Thu, 19 Oct 95 14:26 EDT From: Raul Miller To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: dselect has a strange Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.5 If I start up dselect, choose "select", and hit return without making any changes, I wind up with the following screen. I am not able to fathom the purpose of this screen, nor am I particularly interested in removing these packages from my system. [Of course, it's plausible that if I removed these packages then re-installed them that this artifact would vanish....] dselect - recursive package listing +/-=select v=verbose ?=help HIOS Pri Section Package Description *** Std text ispell An interactive spelling corrector *** Opt tex dvipsk TeX DVI-driver for Postscript ** Xtr non-free gopherd Serves documents using the Internet Gopher+ Proto *** Xtr tex hyperlatex Creating HTML using LaTeX documents. ispell installed; selected (was: selected). Standard ispell recommends word-list interrelationships affecting ispell -- Raul ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Raul Miller : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1705 ; Package dpkg . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov