Re: "dpkg --forget-old-unavail" do nothing

To: Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: "dpkg --forget-old-unavail" do nothing
From: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:18:43 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 199709120318.UAA01975@fleming.jimpick.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:07:35 +0200." <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.970912000717.174H-100000@arca.arca.it>

> Why?

Running dpkg --help, it says:

  dpkg --forget-old-unavail        forget uninstalled unavailable pkgs

Did you have any uninstalled, unavailable packages?  If not, then
that's why it didn't do anything.  If you did, then it's a bug.

Cheers,

 - Jim

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