> Grab debian/dists/<dist>/{main,contrib,non-free}/Contents-<yourarch>.gz . > It may be in a slightly different place, but that should be what you need.
Thanks for the info (and the quick reply). I grabbed ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz I think it has all three (main,contrib,non-free). It works perfectly: $ grep libncurses.so.3.0 Contents-i386 lib/libncurses.so.3.0 oldlibs/ncurses3.0 This is exactly what I need. Thanks again, Patrick