dselect is a liar

[bmcintyre@primus.com.au]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:38:56AM +1000, bmcintyre@primus.com.au wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:19:49PM +1000, Bruce McIntyre wrote:
> > when i fire up dselect, it tells me that fetchmail version 5.8.11-1 is availible.
> > when i check the same on the website it states that version 5.8.12.1 is current
> > 
> > my problem is that fetchmailconf 5.8.12-1 depends on the latter version, which dselect doesn't know about.
> > 
> > the pertinent section in /etc/apt/sources.list reads:
> > 
> > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> > 
> > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
> > 
> > is this wrong ?
> > 
> 
> still having the same problem but:
> 
> 		dselect available       website packages search
> 		says :			says :
> fetchmail		5.8-14-1		5.8.14-2
> fetchmailconf		5.8.14-2		5.8.14-2
> fetchmail-ssl		5.8.11-1		5.8.14-2
> 
> this still mucks up the dependencies for fetchmail and fetchmailconf.
> there is a similar issue with xmame and xmame-x, the versions are different,
> and so the dependencies cannot be fufilled.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.

I don't mean to flood the list here---but I thought the subject header was not so
very clear. 
I am wondering if this problem is linked to the archives not present problem some
people are having. 

Bruce McIntyre.