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

Package: dselect
Version: 1.22.21
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

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