Ian Jackson is listed as the maintainer of the dpkg package which contains dselect. I just sent him a short note letting him know that there is a group of users who wish to help improve dselect, and asking for his guidance. If he is very busy, he may prefer not to be a member of the dselect project mailing list, but instead keep in contact with a single representative of the group.
I noticed from the Debian web page that he tops the list of maintainers with 141 outstanding bugs. I am certain that this is due to his central role in the project and not due to any lack of effort. Last year I read one of the mailing lists which he quite was active on, and for several months I thought that he was the Ian in Debian. I still consider him "the other Ian in Debian." It looks to me like he could use some help. I suggest that we await his response and guidance. While checking out the Debian web page, I notice that there is a debian-dpkg mailing list mentioned, but no archived messages are available for it. Does anyone know the story behind that. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]