The same happens to me. Changing the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list does leaves dselect (or apt-get) happy with the woody distribution.
Any other ideas? Thanks Alessandro Stephan Engelke wrote > > Reactivating the potato entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and deleting > the woody ones did not help. apt tells me that my system is up to > date ;-) > D. Ghost wrote > You just change your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to potato stable: > > deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main contrib non-free > deb-src ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main > > and do the apt-get dist upgrade (which should downgrade you) > > I think this is what I did when I went back from woody to potato for the > same reasons. > > I still have some trouble with woody stuff that is still on the PC (perl > too new) etc. >