Re: duplicate packages in Sources and Packages files
On 11964 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> The result of that change is that the structure of the Sources and
> Packages files have changed: before, there was only one version of each
> source or binary package in each suite (unstable, testing, stable). There
> can now be several versions of the same source or binary package in the
> same suite. As a result, you can now find several stanzas for the same
> source package in a Sources file, and several stanzas for the same binary
> package in a Packages file.
Multiple binaries per suite was always possible, though on different
architectures.
Apt does get it right, and I think there is nothing that actually
forbids multiple entries in the Sources file. Quite the opposite, simple
tools like dpkg-scan[sources|packages] do that forever already IIRC, so for
every location that uses them you already have that. Which got the team
conclusion that every parser that might be there that doesn't is broken
in itself and should be fixed.
Note that reverting this change reopens a very old bug, #246992, one
which we would prefer to not have.
--
bye, Joerg
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