I've installed xpaint on my system, and every time I run dselect it complains about pbmplus being unavailable--even though pbmplus has been superseded by netpbm, and I have netpbm installed. Is there some way to get deselect to stop complaining about this non-problem? I could go and hack on some files in /var/lib/dpkg, but that would only work until the next time I do an upgrade via ftp. It would be nice to have an option in dselect/dpkg to mark something as "yeah, I know, enough already" or something like that.
Also: there doesn't seem to be any straightforward way to downgrade a package using dselect. There are times when this could be important, like when you upgrade and it unexpectedly breaks something vital. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/
