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Re: serious bugs/package removal



>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> writes:

    Michael> mme@feivel:~$ egrep "Filename:.*quota"
    Michael> /var/lib/dpkg/available Filename:
    Michael> dists/potato/main/binary-all/admin/tcpquota_1.6.15-7.1.deb
    Michael> Filename:
    Michael> pool/main/q/quotatool/quotatool_1.1.1-1_i386.deb

    Michael> As you can see it's not there. Now I have no idea how
    Michael> this could happen. But it surely explains it.

FYI: It is probably better to show the output of apt-cache, eg:

apt-cache showpkg quota

otherwise you will get people asking "did you run apt-get upgrade and
forget that it doesn't automatically update /var/lib/dpkg/available?"

(use dselect update to do that).
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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