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#692111: wrong contents files in place (breaks firmware package selection in
live-build)
It has been closed by Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]>.
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Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> writes:
> On 11/02/2012 12:11 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> I think this was changed in b36379705f3f2a52788ad19cf1da339c4edf339d
>> back in March 2011 and announced in [2]. Note that the compatibility
>> symlinks will be removed once squeeze moved to archive.d.o.
>
> ftr it's not "compatibility" if you change the content of it to
> something else.
Well, it continues to work for packages in main. For other components
one has need to use the new location.
Anyway, as I said earlier we don't want to duplicate the information so
I am closing this bug.
Ansgar
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Owner: [email protected]
Severity: serious
It used to be that dists/$codename/Contents-$arch.gz is a concatenation
of all dists/$codename/$archive_area/Contents-$arch.gz.
For some reason, i just found out that now
dists/$codename/Contents-$arch.gz is merely a copy of
dists/$codename/main/Contents-$arch.gz, so basically *not* including the
contrib and non-free contents anymore.
This breaks live-build as it tries to deduce the list of firmware
packages to include for the unofficial 'firmware images'.
I can't think of a good explenation why this change would make sense, so
i guess it's just a bug and i'd be happy if you could look into it and
fix it.
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