Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.16
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/wnpp-alert

The wnpp-alert script continually reports false positives; e.g. orphaned
packages that are NOT installed on my system.

For example:

$wnpp-alert
RFA 419334 cdtool -- text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands
RFH 354176 cvs -- Concurrent Versions System
RFH 448284 dctrl-tools -- Command-line tools to process Debian package 
information
RFA 460036 defoma -- Debian Font Manager -- automatic font configuration 
framework
RFH 282283 dpkg -- dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
O 465909 f2c -- A FORTRAN 77 to C/C++ translator.
O 320075 falconseye -- A port of NetHack using SDL
RFA 466245 fontforge -- Font editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts
O 353128 ftplib -- Library of callable ftp routines
[...]

$dpkg --list falconseye ftplib
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                       Version                    Description
+++-==========================-==========================-====================================================================
pn  falconseye                 <none>                     (no description 
available)
un  ftplib                     <none>                     (no description 
available)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.28.3     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.16.6  package building tools for Debian
ii  libc6                         2.7-8      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl                          5.8.8-12   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sed                           4.1.5-5    The GNU sed stream editor

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.9.3      Gives a fake root environment

-- no debconf information




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