On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:51:48AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > Housekeeping ... > > > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:41:59 +0000 (GMT) > > > > dpkg --forget-old-unavail only removes unavailable packages > > from the status file which have Status: purge ok not-installed, > > but not those which have Status: hold ok not-installed, > > This doesn't look like a bug to me. Close?
If I recall correctly, the default status for a new package used to be "hold ok not-installed", whereas it is currently "purge ok not-installed". So it may still be worth keeping this around for a bit. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London website: http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~jdg/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see: http://people.debian.org/~jdg/ Visit http://www.thehungersite.com/ to help feed the hungry