On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:41:37AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:28:43PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> > Why do packages have to be removed from main just because a newer version is
> > in non-US/main?
> It's not a purely technical issue, we can deal with it being in both.
Perhaps not purely, but it's largely a technical issue: dselect, apt-get
and testing will all have problems coping with the same package being
in the archive twice.
If you want the same package in the archive twice for some reason,
rename it.
Cheers,
aj
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