On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:53:49AM -0400, Charles <debianl...@videotron.ca> was 
heard to say:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:26:10 -0700
> Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote:
> >   The local or obsolete category in both aptitude and synaptic
> > consists of packages that are installed on your system but aren't
> > available from any of the archives you have listed in
> > /etc/apt/sources.list.  Usually this is because they were removed
> > from the archive after you installed them, but it could also come
> > about if you removed a repository line from sources.list after
> > installing a package.  
> 
>    Well that would make sense for some of the packages...but among
> the list is linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 which I believe is the current
> kernel on testing and the whole openoffice.org series ???

  According to packages.debian.org, linux-image-2.6.29-2-686 does not
exist in any archive.  openoffice.org does seem a bit odd.  Is it
really the whole set of packages?  Some individual packages are missing
from squeeze -- some of the help packages, for instance.

  Daniel


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