Package: ftp.debian.org Version: 1.1.7 Repeatedly, I faced problems with a new installation and with upgrades coming from an out-of-date Packages file and/or of an incomplete set of packages. I have ignored missing packages when they were just recommended but not available. Currently, however, there is the package gs_4.01 in /non-free, which *depends* on gsfonts (>=4.01), libpaper (>=1.0-1), both of which are not availabe, however, in the stable tree. An older version of gs, which is in /buzz and which would do with the existing gsfonts package, cannot be installed, because dselect picks only the newest version.
Perhaps it would be possible to automatically generate up-to-date Packages files and to automatically check whether all the packages others depend on are really there. Univ.-Doz. Dr. Anton Rebhan Inst. f. Theoret. Physik, Techn. Univ. Wien Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/136 A-1040 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43-1-58801-5695 Fax: +43-1-5867760
