Bug#225882: dselect: Some packages missing from list

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:17:29AM +0000, Daniel Burton wrote:
> Package: dselect
> Version: 1.10.18
> Severity: normal
> 
> Some packages seem to be missing from the list in dselect -- but somehow 
> they appear in aptitude.  I was trying to find freenet and 
> freenet-unstable and I thought somehow they had been removed, because 
> they would not appear in dselect, but when I went to aptitude, they 
> appeared, and I was able to install them.  Once installed, they appeared 
> in dselect's list.  However, other packages seem to be missing from the 
> list as well.  All of the jdk1.1 packages have the same problem.  They 
> will not be listed until I install them with aptitude.  I can also 
> install things with apt-get sucessfully.
> 
> I am updating the package list in dselect before I start every time, so 
> it should be up-to-date, but I still have this problem.

Could you post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]