On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:25:29PM -0600, Christopher Brand wrote: > For roughly the last week I have had many of the packages in dselect showing > up as obsolete. This includes KDE, perl-5.6, netscape, and many other > packages that I commonly use. I thought at first that there were > replacements for these packages with new names but I couldn't find them. > > My instalation is woody, and my mirror is ftp.us.debian.org. Can anybody > help me with this problem?
It's not a problem, just a temporary condition resulting from the transition to package pools and the new links: stable -> potato testing -> woody unstable -> sid This gives an alternative to provide newer stuff than potato, with a bit less risk than running unstable. Packages from unstable are moved to testing after 14 days if no problems have occurred. Testing started out a few days ago with just the packages which are linked to potato, so anything else you had installed shows up as obsolete/local. In time, the other packages will show up in dselect. If you can't (or don't want to) wait, change sources.list to point to unstable instead of woody. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
