On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 06:18:20PM +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 07:10:57PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > You missed the following part of the manpage:
> > 
> >        -a, --all
> >            Show new opportunities for contribution to all available Debian
> >            packages.
> > 
> > 
> > I get 4k lines of output from how-can-i-help without the grep - why is 
> > usbmount missing?
> 
> Actually, I missed the --all, somehow.
> 
> As the manpage states, how-can-i-help lists things for /available/
> packages, when using --all.  Assuming you use testing, that might be the
> reason why it is not listed.
> 
> Could you send here the output of `apt-cache policy usbmount` and

usbmount:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.0.22
  Version table:
     0.0.22 500
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages

> `cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*` ?

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid main
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid main



You are searching for the problem at the wrong place:

$ wget https://udd.debian.org/how-can-i-help.json.gz
...
$ zgrep usbmount how-can-i-help.json.gz
$ 


Whatever the problem might be, it clearly is on your server and not on 
my computer.


> Best,
> 
>   nicoo

cu
Adrian

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