Bug#698957: dpkg poorly handles dependencies with | operator

Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: reassign -1 gnome-terminal Control: retitle -1 gnome-terminal: Please mark as M-A:foreign On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 18:54:17 +0100, Maurizio Oliveri wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.16.9 > Severity: important > I've recently encountered this problem when inst

Bug#698957: dpkg poorly handles dependencies with | operator

Thanks for the quick reply, "dpkg --configure -a" doesn't print anything at all ---Maurizio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#698957: dpkg poorly handles dependencies with | operator

Hi Maurizio, Maurizio Oliveri wrote: > Of course, "dpkg --get-selections | grep gnome-terminal" returns > "gnome-terminal install". What is the output of "dpkg --configure -a"? Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#698957: dpkg poorly handles dependencies with | operator

Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.9 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I've recently encountered this problem when installing Steam's .deb package: in its control file ( after removing all the Ubuntu versioning numbers ) there's written "xterm | gnome-terminal". I have gnome-terminal installed on my s