I think this is a bug and I'm wondering whether I should file it in the BTS. The problem is, looking at the current bug lists for dpkg and apt, filing bugs against them seems to be more or less a waste of time. Also, I don't know which one has the problem. But the problem is:
I use apt more-or-less exclusively to keep my system up to date (which invokes dpkg, obviously). However, /var/lib/dpkg/status (and hence dpkg -s) disagrees with /var/state/apt/lists/* about the Section line of some packages. Apt is correct. It appears that dpkg is using *old* sections and not updating the section line when the package is upgraded. The examples I have found were identified by vrms; the following entries are in error: ssh: dpkg says non-US/non-free, but apt knows that it's really just in non-US dnsutils: dpkg says non-free/net, apt says just net Is it legal to hand-modify /var/lib/dpkg/status? I'd like to get these packages out of my vrms output, if nothing else. Is there some other way to do this? Better yet: What should I do about getting this fixed? I don't even know what package the bug should be against, and either of the likely candidates seem to more-or-less ignore bug reports. I don't mind looking through source code to try to figure out the problem, but I don't want to have to download 100 -dev packages before I can even try. Any suggestions? Thanks, Stuart. PS I discussed this already in the thread "Non-freeness", but I didn't discover the actual problem until very deep in the thread.
