Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 20:36:04 +0000, Felix Karpfen wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:31:27 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:

[ We are trying to figure out why "aptitude search '~i!~Odebian'", a   command meant to find all installed non-Debian packages, returns so   many false positives on Felix's Debian Etch system. ]  

> > What do you see when you run
> > apt-cache policy a2ps adduser alsa-base
> > ?
>
> The following:
>
> | a2ps:
> | Installed: 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1
> | Candidate: 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1
> | Version table:
> | *** 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1 0
> | 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] unstable/main Packages
> | 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[...]

Why does apt not recognise the packages from the DVDs as official Debian packages? Please post the output of:

grep ^Origin /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Release

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