Bug#51478: dpkg-dev: packages file built from first .deb found rather than latest version of .deb

[Steve Robbins <steve@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca>]

Hi,

I'm glad to know that dpkg and apt handle multiple package versions in
Packages.  I hope you're not waiting on a "complete" fix for
dpkg-scanpackages, though.

The simple patch I sent is certainly more correct than the current
behaviour.  Since the patch is so tiny, it is trivial to verify that
nothing will break.  In fact, only the second hunk is necessary; the first
was just me putting in comments as I tried to understand the code.

-S

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Steve Robbins wrote:
> 
> > It wasn't clear to me that Packages *could* hold multiple versions of a
> > single package.  Where is the Packages file format documented?
> 
> IIRC dselect/dpkg takes the first mentioned version and APT takes both and
> sorts them internally. 
> 
> Jason
> 
>