Bug#257278: dpkg turning amnesic ? (doesn't correctly reports available packages ...)

[Emmanuel Charpentier <charpent@bacbuc.dyndns.org>]

Sory for the long time I took to answer. Real Life (TM) has a way to 
interfere ...

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 15:06 +0200, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
>
>
> > dpkg -l no longer does report correctly available packages.
>
> What happens if you run "dselect update" as root?

It seems I have the same problem. I even saw this on a brand-new system 
this afternoon.

But I won't swear it before catching apt/dselect at being patently wrong.

Thanks for your help !

					Emanuel Charpentier