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Bug#1119906: dselect: Replacing available packages info, using -.

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Package: dselect
Version: 1.22.21
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi

dselect displays the above on a system that has either an empty or non-existent /etc/apt/sources.list file. Meanwhile dselects' APT method obviously can use /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.[list|sources] as normal. However, the above prompt is misleading.

Perhaps dselect should be updated to list all files found in /etc/apt/sources.list[.d/*] and omit empty files?

Martin-Éric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii  libc6         2.41-12
ii  libmd0        1.1.0-2+b1
ii  libncursesw6  6.5+20250216-2
ii  libtinfo6     6.5+20250216-2

dselect recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dselect suggests:
ii  libdpkg-perl  1.22.21
ii  perl          5.40.1-6

-- no debconf information

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Bug#1119906: dselect: Replacing available packages info, using -. Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> - 2025-11-02 10:50 +0100
  Bug#1119906: dselect: Replacing available packages info, using -. Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2025-11-08 18:40 +0100

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