Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write:

> If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to
> run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't
> need to run 'apt-get update' as well.

Pardon the somewhat elementary question, but what is dpkg's available
file used for, and why would I need it to be up to date?

Richard


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