Package: dselect Version: 1.16.4 Severity: normal My apologies up front if this turns out to be a package problem.
I have installed libtinyxml2-0.0.0 & libtinyxml2-dev and now I see them classified as Obsolete/local Extra packages, although that shouldn't be the case. apt-cache policy libtinyxml2-0.0.0 libtinyxml2-0.0.0: Installed: 0~git20120518.1.a2ae54e-1 Candidate: 0~git20120518.1.a2ae54e-1 Version table: *** 0~git20120518.1.a2ae54e-1 0 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Excerpt from /var/lib/dpkg/status (Section libs!): Package: libtinyxml2-0.0.0 Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: libs Installed-Size: 110 Maintainer: Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: same Source: tinyxml2 Version: 0~git20120518.1.a2ae54e-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) Pre-Depends: multiarch-support Description: C++ XML parsing library More info available upon request (I'm not sure what else to submit). -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.4.0 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dselect depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.4 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-12 ii libncursesw5 5.9-8 ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-12 ii libtinfo5 5.9-8 dselect recommends no packages. Versions of packages dselect suggests: ii perl 5.14.2-11 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org