PACKAGE: dpkg (and the ftp site) The "Packages" and "Packages.gz" files do not have ms-dos compatible filenames. Depending on the tools used, manipulating these files on, MSDOS filesystems can be a problem.
I suggest that these files be renamed to "packages" and "packages.gz", respectively. they should be placed on the ftp site with these ms-dos compatible names. dselect should probably look for the files first under these names and, if that fails, under their current names. Files intended to have ms-dos compatible filenames should have names with an 8.3 format, and using only the chars [a-z0-9] and '-', '_', and possibly a few other non-alpha chars. Two things known to cause problems are names exceeding 8.3 limits and names having uppercase characters.
