Yes sir, that's it. I did associate the starnge behaviour with dselect even though it's dpkg-ftp working under the hood. I forgot to check the bugs this time but I'm not sure if I would have found it under dpkg-ftp.
Thanks for clearing this to me. Guy Maor wrote: > > Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I recently jumped from stable to unstable. Just a moment ago I thought > > about installing TeX and it's friends in my system. However dselect lists > > many packages that are not in the tex section of unstable tree. E.g. mflib, > > > > mfbin are not in unstable but were in stable. > > You're probably using dpkg-ftp and have hit bug 6210. // Heikki
