Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lucas Nussbaum writes: > It is likely that other tools and scripts are affected. And there might > also be some affected packages (debmirror? APT proxies?). Certainly not debmirror. That alway had to cope with Arch:all packages being listed in each archs Packages file and the same version in sta

Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:32:56PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > There have always been possible to have several versions of the same > > binary package in the same suite (for different archit

Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:32:56PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > There have always been possible to have several versions of the same > binary package in the same suite (for different architectures) so this > shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. But in this case the different versions of one packa

Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11964 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > The result of that change is that the structure of the Sources and > Packages files have changed: before, there was only one version of each > source or binary package in each suite (unstable, testing, stable). There > can now be several versions of the

Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > The result of that change is that the structure of the Sources and > Packages files have changed: before, there was only one version of > each source or binary package in each suite (unstable, testing, > stable). There can now be several versions of the

Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-13 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Lucas Nussbaum said: > So, where should we go from there? Our options are: > - find & fix all the occurences of the problem ASAP. Please report it > if you notice strange things about version numbers or other data > that possibly comes from Sources/Packages. > - ask

duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files

2009-12-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, Ftpmasters have done a change that possibly has very large side effects. >From d-d-a: > Tracking arch all packages > -- > #246992 asked us to not delete arch all packages before the > corresponding (if any) arch any packages are available for all > architectures. Examp