Package list in Ubuntu universe incomplete?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 05:28:01PM +0000, sparkes wrote:

> Alexey Molchanov wrote:
> >I'm using Warty final and trying to install package stardict but
> >'apt-cache search stardict' can't find it in repositories. :(
> >
> >My sources.list have entries for main and universe, i.e.:
> >deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted
> >deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty universe
> >
> >I knew Debian have this package so I investigated little futher and
> >manually found this package at the universe pool:
> >http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/stardict/
> >
> >Why apt-cache search can't find this package?
> >Maybe Packages.gz incorrect?
> >
> It could be that this package has failed a build.  I don't know how you 
> can check this without asking a developer ;-) but I am sure a search of 
> the mailing list will point you to a list of packages that buildd has 
> failed to compile (if such a thing exists).

There is no such list (it would be chronically out of date), but given a
source package name, you can look here:

http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~lamont/buildLogs/

In this case, the package built successfully, and is installable.  Probably,
it had just recently been uploaded when Alexey looked.

-- 
 - mdz