On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Yes, and? > > > > We have added those warnings, it's not to drop them when someone sees > > them. :-) > > It does sound like a bug to me. Would it make sense to automatically update > the available file somehow on upgrade?
With what information? We can't invent the value of the architecture field and the available file references packages which can be anywhere... since it can be fed with dpkg --update-avail. > > I understand they are left-over from very long ago, you should simply > > run "dpkg --clear-avail" to get rid of them. > > This sounds like a workaround. :) Sort of. It's also a way to fix the problem reported by dpkg. The available file is mostly meaningful for dselect and if the user were still regularly using dselect, he would probably not have seen the warning because the content of the available file would not reference very old entries. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
