On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 00:34:08 +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: > when you only use dpkg and apt or aptitude and never use dselect > is it safe to just clear the file /var/lib/dpkg/available with > the command "dpkg --clear-avail" as a workaround for this bug? > Or is this file used for anything else than dselect?
Other things might use it, but it can (mostly) always be recreated w/o loss of data. If you are not using dselect, it's always safe to clear it. Maybe we should clear it on upgrade though, I'll think about it. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
