Re: orphan packages?

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:

> > I recently upgraded to bo and when I run dselect it shows some packages
> > which are apparently non-existent.  I selected modules-2.0.0-15 from the
> > base listing and multimedia-2.1-3 and dselect ignores the selection.  I
> > checked the directory listings at ftp.debian.org and these packages do
> not
> > seem to exist.
> > 
> > Why does dselect show them as available (and know enough to not try to
> get
> > them)???? 
> > 
> > I updated the packages list, but dselect still shows them.  Is there a
> way
> > to get dselect to agree with the Packages file?
> 
> Same thing goes for Pine and Pico from non-free....
> 

But Pine and Pico are on the ftp server.

Bob

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