Package: dselect Version: 1.16.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
dselect no longer shows package descriptions for the vast majority of packages, except for a one-line description. Presumably this is because the descriptions are absent from /var/lib/dpkg/available. A Description-md5 field has appeared in their place. Being able to grep through /var/lib/dpkg/available was very convenient. That's what I've always done whenever I would wonder if there was a Debian package that would help me solve any given problem. Having the full descriptions show up in dselect was also very useful. Where have the descriptions gone? How can I get them back into dselect and back into a local text file I can search? Thanks, AMC -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.0.3 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4 ii libncursesw5 5.9-1 ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-4 ii libtinfo5 5.9-7 dselect recommends no packages. Versions of packages dselect suggests: ii perl 5.14.2-11 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
