Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

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

Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 03:13:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> > You're correct.
>> And he is also wrong.
>> That would result in debs with the same name and version but different
>> md5sums. Something that easily confuses apt-get and people.
>
> And yet, somehow people manage partial cross-grades between Debian and
> Ubuntu...
>
> Regards,
> aj

I said confuse. Doesn't mean it won't work at all. But apart from
stuff not getting cross-graded (as you put it) you can also end up in
loops that will re-cross-grade a package every time you apt-get
upgrade and the like.

Having apt-get say there is a new version of foo available every day
is damn anoying.

MfG
        Goswin