[HELP:]howto hamm->slink + dpkg problems

[Bruno Boettcher <bboett@erm1.u-strasbg.fr>]

hello,

i didn't find any README in the slink directory, so how does the upgrade work
(and the maintenance...) do i simply install the packages of the slink
directory?

In fact i would like to have packages like gnome easily installed and
maintained through dselect... and that seems possible only upgrading to
slink...


second problem: my system seems to have problems with dpkg, i couldn't get it
install the gmp package, no way.... i corresponded with the package mantainer
but after some initial guesses, didn't hear anymore from him :(

result are some packages that are set as broken....
further when trying to retrieve non-US packages, despite the fact that the
Package file is fetched at the right location, when trying to download the path
used by dselect is worng:
Checking for Packages file...
/pub/mirror/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/hamm/binary-i386/Packages.gz
but:
Connecting to ftp.inka.de...
Login as anonymous...
Setting transfer mode to binary...
Cd to `/debian'...
getting: dists/stable/non-US/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-4.deb (283332)
dists/stable/non-US/binary-i386/pgp-us_2.6.3a-4.deb: No such file or directory.