Control: tags -1 + confirmed Yes, this does seem to be a bug.
To fix this bug right wants some refactoring. Let us take this in stages. Version 2.18 of debmirror (which I mean to upload as adopting new maintainer) partly refactors the relevant code. We'll let the partly refactored 2.18 stay in sid and testing a while, in case the refactoring has inadvertently broken something. After that, I or someone else can try to fix the bug itself. I have tested the refactoring. As far as I can tell, it cleans up the relevant part of the program's internal logic without materially altering the program's external behavior, but also therefore without fixing the bug. If someone besides me ends up trying to fix the bug: I can recommend starting by searching in the debmirror script executable for the symbol do_contents_for_each_dist_arch_sect, which my recent refactoring has introduced pursuant to this bug. I suspect that the bug lies in the neighborhood of one of the several occurrences of this symbol. I also suspect that the bug will now be easier to isolate than it was before, provided that you can read Perl at a moderately advanced level. You can also search in the debmirror script executable for the hash key do_for_source, which is not yet used, but which I have introduced to prepare to attack this bug.
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