Bug#2853: removal of anachronistic packages from dpkg status files

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Carlo Segre writes:
> The result is that when I enter dselect, there are a bunch of                
> anachronistic packages which are still listed and it is only when I use
> the "i" option that I see that there is no file available for the
> package.
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This problem is substantially fixed in dpkg 1.1.6, which will be
released shortly.  dselect will no longer display packages which are
not at least one of selected, installed or available.

Ian.