The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 4f4f01eff03995c81543716e471d82bf7506f6ee
Author: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Sep 26 17:46:00 2009 +0200

    dselect-ftp: stop calling dpkg --forget-old-unavail as it's a no-op
    
    And it outputs an annoying warning nowadays.

diff --git a/dselect/methods/ftp/update b/dselect/methods/ftp/update
index 7930099..a410df3 100755
--- a/dselect/methods/ftp/update
+++ b/dselect/methods/ftp/update
@@ -242,10 +242,5 @@ if (!$packages_modified) {
            $exit = 1;
        }
     }
-
-    if(system("dpkg", "--forget-old-unavail")) {
-       print "dpkg --forget-old-unavail failed";
-       die "error";
-    }
 }
 exit $exit;

-- 
dpkg's main repository


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