On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file > needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing > (do that quite often myself). dpkg itself doesn't use it AFAIK. dpkg does. if you do dpkg -i foo.deb, it will update the entry in available.