Bug#153200: dselect: update reports wrong "available" pathname

[Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Except that there is no such file.  The only 'available' on the system
> > is /var/lib/dpkg/available.
> 
> It's removed after use.

Oh.  Okay.  I feel silly.  :-)


> Also that output is from apt, not dselect.

Nope, it's dselect.  Running "apt-get update" doesn't produce the same text.
(Or check the dselect source; I think it's update.c.)


Phil

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