Ack, sure enough, they are status-old and status.yesterday.0,
status.yesterday.1.gz, etc.
That is what I get for going online with only 1/2 a cup of coffee in me.
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
> If you have only just done this, and not played with dselect since,
> then a
> cp /var/lib/dpkg/status{.old,}