Package: dselect Version: 1.10.9 Severity: normal When invoking 'dselect update' (or '[U]pdate' in dselect main menu) and an index file failes to download, the package database of apt-get seems to be correctly updated, but dselect doesn't update it's package list.
example: -------- ... Hit http://gd.tuwien.ac.at testing/non-US/contrib Release Err http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be unstable/ Packages 404 Not Found Hit http://deb.opera.com testing/non-free Packages ... Ign http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be unstable/ Release Failed to fetch http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~mleeman/debian/unstable/Packages 404 Not Found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Update available list script returned error exit status 1. Press <enter> to continue. -------- after doing this, 'apt-get upgrade' or 'dselect install' does install updated packages, but 'dselect select' doesn't show any new or updated packages. I consider the "they have been ignored, or old ones used instead" line to be an output of apt-get, which is invoked by dselect!? It would be nice if dselect also uses old (or ignore) indexes if new ones can't be downloaded, in the same way apt-get does. best regards -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux okibil 2.4.20-k7 #1 Sat Mar 15 20:25:58 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-17 The GNU stdc++ library
