On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:16:46PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.org> 
was heard to say:
> On 2009-09-24 19:18:26 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >   As far as I can tell, those are still present on the FTP server, and
> > the referenced bug doesn't say otherwise.  Why should they be in the
> > Obsolete section?
> 
> OK, I thought that aptitude got the information in some other way.
> Can't there be another section for packages still present on the
> FTP server, but in obsolete status (so that the user doesn't report
> bugs against such packages)?

  No.  aptitude has no way to know this.  You would need to create a
new section on the ftp server or add information to the package
metadata.

  Daniel



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