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Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package



On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 20:36:04 +0000, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:31:27 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:

[ We are trying to figure out why "aptitude search '~i!~Odebian'", a
  command meant to find all installed non-Debian packages, returns so
  many false positives on Felix's Debian Etch system. ]
 
> > What do you see when you run
> > apt-cache policy a2ps adduser alsa-base
> > ?
> 
> The following:
> 
> | a2ps:
> |   Installed: 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1
> |   Candidate: 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1
> |   Version table:
> |  *** 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1 0
> |         500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] unstable/main Packages
> |         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[...]

Why does apt not recognise the packages from the DVDs as official Debian
packages? Please post the output of:

grep ^Origin /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Release

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          Florian   |


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