Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.1 After you upgrade from xntp3 to ntp with dselect, one still have an entry in its status file: --- Package: xntp3 Status: deinstall ok config-files Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 375 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 5.93-3 Config-Version: 5.93-3 Replaces: xntp Depends: awk, libc6 Conflicts: xntp Conffiles: /etc/cron.weekly/xntp3 4db595b81ca7ae4fda584fb92516a40d Description: Network Time Protocol clients and server The Network Time Protocol allows for the synchronization of clocks on --- and a lost file in /etc/cron.weekly which cannot be removed, since dselect do not show xntp3 in its 'Obsolete/Local' section (showing it would be the correct behavior). If the daemon didn't change its name from xntpd to ntpd, it could lead to random breakage without even the user knowing the obsolete 'lost' file from this partially-removed package.
The right way to fix this would be to show uninstalled but not purged obsolete packages like the installed ones. -- System Information Debian Release: 2.1 Kernel Version: Linux cesarb2 2.2.1 #1 Fri Jan 29 14:33:03 EDT 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU Libc: shared libraries ii libncurses4 4.2-3 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-5 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
