[Bug 810676] Re: Describes packages as "previously deselected" when they never were

[Joe Burgess]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug in the upstream bug
tracking system this is a tremendous help. Launchpad has the ability to
watch lots of upstream bug trackers and this can be done by following
the procedure documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Watches. I've
added the bug watch for this bug report.

** Also affects: dpkg via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231089
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Describes packages as "previously deselected" when they never were

Status in dpkg:
  Unknown
Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Ocelot alpha 2 (but this bug goes back as far as I can
  remember)

  1. Install Ubuntu.
  2. In your brand new Ubuntu installation, install something from the Terminal, e.g. "apt-get install bzr".

  What you see:
  ...
  Fetched 3,163 kB in 0s (7,114 kB/s)      
  Selecting previously deselected package python-configobj.
  (Reading database ... 150133 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking python-configobj (from .../python-configobj_4.7.2+ds-3_all.deb) ...
  Selecting previously deselected package python-bzrlib.
  Unpacking python-bzrlib (from .../python-bzrlib_2.4.0~beta4-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
  Selecting previously deselected package bzr.
  Unpacking bzr (from .../bzr_2.4.0~beta4-4ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
  Selecting previously deselected package patch.
  Unpacking patch (from .../patch_2.6.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
  Selecting previously deselected package bzrtools.
  Unpacking bzrtools (from .../bzrtools_2.4.0~bzr767-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
  Selecting previously deselected package python-paramiko.
  Unpacking python-paramiko (from .../python-paramiko_1.7.7.1-1_all.deb) ...
  ...

  What you should see: apt shouldn't claim that a package was
  "previously deselected" when it never was.

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