On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Hello Ansgar, > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 13:23, Ansgar Burchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reportbug sometimes looks up the wrong maintainer for packages that have > > been removed from the system. > > > > The output from "dpkg --print-avail" can be wrong if the package is no > > longer > > installed. Reportbug should not use this information for these packages. > > For > > example on my system I get this: > > But isn't it a bug in dpkg then? I can feel like --print-avail should > print only "available" package, and nntp was no longer available on > your system. I can't think an easy way to fix this if not switching to > apt-cache or some other tool.
Don't use "dpkg --print-avail" it reports only outdated information in most cases as the available file is only a left-over from dselect and as such it's almost guaranteed to not be up-to-date. There's a warning in the man page in the git repository documenting this limitation already. Use apt-cache is my suggestion. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
