On 14/01/07 at 14:28 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:45:18 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Some source packages generate binary packages using the same name as > > another source package. For example, see the 'qd' source package, > > and the 'qd' binary package generated by the kfolding source package > > (in contrib). > > > Some tools don't like it at all (e.g sbuild), causing confusing > > behaviour, based on the order of entries in Sources.gz, and > > confusion for users. > > Why is this not considered a bug in the tools that needs to be > fixed, rather than creating policy to work around bugs in the toolchain? I think that this problem is really widespread, and not that trivial to solve. What would be an acceptable behaviour ?
Software dealing with source packages should prefer the src pkg with the requested name, if one is available, and only fallback to the binary package if no src pkg is available or if an additional restriction (e.g on version) makes it necessary. With this, apt fails: $ apt-cache showsrc qd Package: qd Binary: libqd2c2a, libqd-dev Version: 2.1.200-1 [...] Package: kfolding Binary: kfolding, qd Version: 1.0.0-rc2-5 $ apt-get source qd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 1024kB of source archives. Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/contrib kfolding 1.0.0-rc2-5 (dsc) [633B] Get:2 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/contrib kfolding 1.0.0-rc2-5 (tar) [1004kB] Get:3 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/contrib kfolding 1.0.0-rc2-5 (diff) [19.2kB] Fetched 1024kB in 2s (465kB/s) $ apt-get source qd=2.1.200-1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 769kB of source archives. Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main qd 2.1.200-1 (dsc) [706B] Get:2 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main qd 2.1.200-1 (tar) [678kB] Get:3 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main qd 2.1.200-1 (diff) [90.3kB] -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
