Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 29 Dec 1996 06:14:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 642 invoked from network); 29 Dec 1996 06:13:58 -0000 Received: from mail0.iij.ad.jp (192.244.176.61) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 29 Dec 1996 06:13:57 -0000 Received: from uucp3.iij.ad.jp (uucp3.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.77]) by mail0.iij.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W9-MAIL) with ESMTP id PAA15845 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:13:07 +0900 Received: from hcore.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by uucp3.iij.ad.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.3W9-UUCP) with UUCP id PAA07005 for bugs.debian.org!submit; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:13:07 +0900 Received: by lilia.hypercore.co.jp via sendmail with stdio id for submit@bugs.debian.org; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:08:14 +0900 (JST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #7 built 1996-Aug-18) Message-Id: Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:08:14 +0900 (JST) From: Kazuhiro Sasayama To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: `update' does not clear available list X-Attribution: Kaz Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.61) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Package: dpkg-ftp Version: 1.4.8 During the update of available list by `dpkg-ftp', it asks "Do you want to clear available list [y]," but does not clear it even if the answer is y or just an enter. The test in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/update ($ans =~ /^Yy/) is wrong. It needs [] around Yy as /^[Yy]/. The question can also be read as the default is y, but it is not. Either the question or the test should be corrected. Kaz Sasayama, a member of the Free Software Union. >Keywords: Nagoya, X68000, Linux, OS/2 Warp. >PGP key fingerprint = 53 71 54 56 FB 3D 76 0B 92 5D 32 40 C5 34 38 00