Re: The future of the amd64 port

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net> writes:

>> 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.

And don't forget to remove the obsolete entries from sources.list.

MfG
        Goswin