no, I've not been hacking. I did upload sources for testing which seemed to become mixed up with stable and testing sources showed dselect as a separate package. Here's how it looks on stable/woody:
linux:~# dpkg -S `whereis dselect` dpkg: *dselect:* not found. dpkg: /usr/bin/dselect dpkg: /usr/share/man/man8/dselect.8.gz linux:~# linux:~# dpkg -l dselect 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 dselect <none> (no description available) linux:~# On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:18:53AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 18:46, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > It probably isn't, then. :) dselect used to be in the dpkg package, it only > > became its own package after Woody. > > Hmm...but dpkg still Pre-Depends on dselect, so unless Joss hacked his > dpkg package, something is screwy... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --