Re: The future of the amd64 port

[Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net>]

> I am running Sarge with addition of some Etch packages. After switching 
> sources.list from
> 
> "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/ etch main contrib non-free"
> 
> to
> 
> "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free",
> 
> aptitude wants to install about 20 packages from Sarge 3.1r0 again in the 
> identical version to that already installed. Worst of all, after reinstalling 
> these packages, aptitude keeps repeating the request to reinstall with every 
> run!

OK, this is also my situation.  I've been working on it with Goswin von
Brederlow in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351056, but we
haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet.