On 7/29/05, Guillaume TESSIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I have a question about aptitude. > I use to run debian testing sarge and stick to sarge when it got stable. > > I usually manage packages with aptitude. > Of course their was a "new packages" directory as new packages were > introduced on a regular basis to the debian repository. > > But now, since sarge is frozen, i don't understand why this directory is > still there. > I was just looking for a gnome package and couldn't find it. I know > alphabet, so i just went : where is this package? > It was neither in the installed and uninstalled directores but in the > new packages directory. > > The directory isn't usefull to me anymore. i'd to merge it. > > There is this option "forget new packages"...
New packages will remain in the new packages list until you select "forget new packages". So hit `f' and it'll merge them for you.