Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal Hello Jason (et al.),
tpo2:~# dpkg -s dummypkg Package: dummypkg Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 16 Maintainer: Tomas Pospisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: dummypkg (1.3-20) Version: 020902154609 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13) Description: dummy package for testing purposes This is a dummy package that serves for testing of the apt-https method. tpo2:~# apt-show-versions dummypkg dummypkg 020902154609 installed: No available version in archive tpo2:~# apt-cache showpkg dummypkg Package: dummypkg Versions: 021014132411(/var/lib/apt/lists/sourcepole.ch_sources_software_debian_._Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status) Reverse Depends: Dependencies: 021014132411 - libc6 (2 2.2.5-13) Provides: 021014132411 - Reverse Provides: tpo2:~# apt-get update dummypkg E: The update command takes no arguments tpo2:~# apt-get install dummypkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, dummypkg is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 272 not upgraded. So allthough there's a newer version of the package, apt refuses to update it. If you want to test it, dummypkg is in both versions available at: http://sourcepole.ch/sources/software/debian/dummypkg_020902154609_i386.deb http://sourcepole.ch/sources/software/debian/dummypkg_021014132411_i386.deb Btw. any news on the - erm - upcoming apt release? *t -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tpo2 2.4.18 #5 Thu Oct 3 16:59:22 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
