On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that my GNOME2 install (all from experimental) was quite
> unstable. But when looking at deselect, I found something strange; it
> says:
> 
>  *** Opt x11      gnome-contro 1.99.10-2   1.99.10-2   The GNOME Control 
> Center for GNOME2
> 
> But when I look at the corresponding file
> /var/lib/apt/lists 
> ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages
> I see:
> 
> Package: gnome-control-center2
> Priority: optional
> Section: x11
> Installed-Size: 3056
> Maintainer: Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: control-center2
> Version: 2.0.0-1
> 
> Perhaps that's why apt-get doesn't want to upgrade it ? I really don't
> know where this discrepancy comes from.
> Could you help me fix this please ? (Cc: me, I'm not on the list)
> 
> Thanks,
>       Xav

My guess is that the reason dselect does not show the updated package is
that you have done an "apt-get update" rather than a "dselect update".
The former does *not* update dselect's available packages list. Run
"dselect update" and check it again :-)

Cheers,

Timshel

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