On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Not a bug. Dpkg doesn't know were to get that file. available is a > > convience > > file, that other tools use, to notify dpkg that they have some file they can > > provide for the system. > > Right, dpkg doesn't know where to get that file, and so it shouldn't leave > an obviously incorrect path in the available file. > > What's the point of having it in there in the first place? Does anyone use > dpkg-ftp anymore?
Well, the plan is to make dpkg not deal with available *at all*.
