Control: tag -1 + confirmed Control: severity -1 minor Hi Simon,
Simon McVittie wrote: > --\ New Packages (1) > --\ games Games, toys, and fun programs (1) > --\ main The main Debian archive (1) > p steam-launcher <none> > 1.0.0.54 The string "The main Debian archive" is a static description string for archives called "main" and does not handle any kind of "origin". See https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/aptitude/aptitude.git/tree/section-descriptions#n83 for the place where the string comes from. I can't tell you since when this is the case as this static string hasn't changed since at least 2005 when the contents from old Subversion repository has been imported (without history) into Mercurial. So this generally happens if some other repo also contains an archive named "main" or if there is no archive name given[1]. [1] Couldn't find the actual code for that, but it's the case according to the comment at https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/aptitude/aptitude.git/tree/src/pkg_grouppolicy.h#n129 So yes, this should be fixed as it's indeed wrong and confusing. But it's the case like this since ages (at least nearly two decades) and nobody bothered(*) until now. Hence downgrading the severity to "minor". (Feel free to raise the severity again if you disagree with my reasoning.) And it's probably neither clear how to fix it (What logic should be implemented given those static descriptions? Do we need a "main" description for Debian and for Non-Debian?) nor if it will be trivial to fix as the current method is dead simple. (*) I'm actually aware of that shortcoming for years now, but it never bothered me enough that I even thought about documenting it in a bug report. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
