> I have a problem with the Debian web site: http://www.debian.org/ > > The "Name", "Description", and "Maintainer" fields of some of the packages are > empty, trying to download such a package results in an "Unknown URL" error. > > However this problem is not quiet reproduceable. Last week the problem > existed for all packages in the "misc" category, today all of them seem > to be ok. But this does not mean that the effect simply vanished, the ten > most recent packages on http://www.debian.org/FTP/ are still damaged. > > Any suggestions how to overcome this problem?
There was a name translation bug in the FTP-interface, which has been fixed now. Please notice that the URLs produced are FTP-URLs; the FTP site is overflowed with requests, so please download from a mirror (see http://www.debian.org/ftp-list.html). The missing information for various entries occurs when the script that generates the pages isn't able to execute dpkg-deb; please contact me directly if this occurs. Greetings, Ray