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Re: Repeated Upgrade of Package



On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:45:10AM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> In your case at least the Installed-Size: field is missing in the
> Packages file (which is hence assumed to be zero), while the control
> file inside the package has such a field with non-zero size. Other
> fields which must match to the letter are e.g. Depends and Pre-Depends
> (a "common" mistake is e.g. having versions there which are rewritten by
> some tools like a 0-epoch).

Thanks very much for this. I'll update our build process and hopefully get 
this fixed.

> Not sure what tool you are using to generate an apt repository, but it
> seems rather non-standard given that it includes the deb file also in
> the Release file… using one of the many already existent solutions might
> be better…

I definitely agree; the person that implemented the build process here 
apparently wrote a bash script that writes out the relevant files, more or 
less manually.

Thanks,
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Patrick Bogen .
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