Re: Bug#66508: apt: apt-get leaves bad information in /var/lib/dpkg/available
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Bradley M . Kuhn wrote:
> I think that an `apt-get update', given that sources.list, should remove any
> references to packages that aren't in `main' from /var/lib/dpkg/available.
apt != dpkg, it does not ever touch dpkg files in any way at all. dselect
(being a dpkg program) will update the available file for you in the way
that dpkg expects them to be updated.
WTH did you CC RMS? I doubt he cares even slightly.
Jason
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