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Bug#354938: marked as done (Require more number of versions/packages that apt is capable of.)

Your message dated Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:27:37 +0200
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and subject line Close: IDs need to be int instead of short
has caused the Debian Bug report #354938,
regarding Require more number of versions/packages that apt is capable of.
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.28.6
Severity: wishlist

I have so many repository listed in sources.list, resulting in having more than 65536 package
versions.
When building packages list, it always exit with the following error,

   E: Wow, you exceeded the number of versions this APT is capable of.

This is because apt use 16-bit data to store the version ID, so I request to have more, such as
32-bit data
to store the version ID.
(This change may affect other app, such as, synaptic, to be recompiled)

-- Package-specific info:

-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-5-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=thai

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6              2.3.2.ds1-13ubuntu2.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1            1:3.4.2-2ubuntu1      GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5         1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information


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Version: 0.7.21

The IDs are for a long time now ints instead of short and at
least on all sane architectures (all archs debian supports [0])
these 32bit ints should have enough room for the next years…

The bug was closed with the entry of 0.7.21 into the archive,
which was on the 14. April 2009 with the following changelog:

[Michael Vogt]
[...]
  * [ABI break] use int for the package IDs (thanks to Steve Cotton)
[...]

At this time the bug was still closed from the experimental upload
before - it was just reopened on 17. Dec 2009 without a reason
(or at least i can't find one).

I am therefore closing these buggroup now (again),
but feel free to reopen it if you disagree. :)


Best regards,

David Kalnischkies

[0] http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

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