at least i feel like i am getting closer to a soulution .... I replaced the sources list and ran dselect update and it seemed to be working ok untill

11% [Connecting to ftp2.de.debian.org (195.71.9.196)]
Err http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
Could not connect to ftp2.de.debian.org:80 (195.71.9.196), connection timed out

I tried it several times with the same problem
ahhhh !