On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > dpkg has no access to the Release file. > > > > Duh. > > > > Why don't you try to fix that instead. > > No, the Release file is a wrong design, dpkg *cannot* access it.
dpkg can access it just fine in all the contexts where a Release file can exist (being called from APT basically), the only problem I see is that hand installed debs would lack this information - a much smaller price to pay than having a proliferation of 'not quite the same' .debs. Personally I find the thought of Corel/Stormix/etc all having their own versions of all our packages with just the BTS tags changed quite distressing. People have always wanted Debian to be a base system, we should try to help that by keeping hard references to our infrastructure out of the archives. Jason
