Bug#400112: [PROPOSAL] forbid source/binary package name conflicts
Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
>
>> With this, apt fails:
>
>> $ apt-cache showsrc qd
>> Package: qd
>> Binary: libqd2c2a, libqd-dev
>> Version: 2.1.200-1
>> [...]
>> Package: kfolding
>> Binary: kfolding, qd
>> Version: 1.0.0-rc2-5
>
> As you can see there are two sources that could be what you mean.
> Do you mean "show me the source qd" => qd, or "show me the source for
> the binary package qd" => kfolding.
>
> If you want to know what the source for a package is then you better
> use 'apt-cache show qd | grep-dctrl "" -s Package,Version,Source'.
> (I hate that Source is optional, makes it harder to find source names.)
>
>> $ apt-get source qd
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Need to get 1024kB of source archives.
>> Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/contrib kfolding 1.0.0-rc2-5 (dsc) [633B]
>> Get:2 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/contrib kfolding 1.0.0-rc2-5 (tar) [1004kB]
>> Get:3 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/contrib kfolding 1.0.0-rc2-5 (diff) [19.2kB]
>> Fetched 1024kB in 2s (465kB/s)
>
>> $ apt-get source qd=2.1.200-1
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Need to get 769kB of source archives.
>> Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main qd 2.1.200-1 (dsc) [706B]
>> Get:2 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main qd 2.1.200-1 (tar) [678kB]
>> Get:3 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main qd 2.1.200-1 (diff) [90.3kB]
>
> Apt-get source downloads the source for the specified binary package,
> not the specified source package. If there is no such binary package
> it falls back to source package to be nice as you can see by
> specifying the version. If you want source packages then you must use
> --only-source:
>
> mrvn@book:~/t1% apt-get --only-source source qd
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Need to get 769kB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main qd 2.1.200-1 (dsc) [706B]
> Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main qd 2.1.200-1 (tar) [678kB]
> Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main qd 2.1.200-1 (diff) [90.3kB]
>
>
> In the initial report you mentioned that sbuild has a problem with
> confusing names like this. Afaik sbuild solely works on source package
> name and version and that is always unique. Where do you get a
> conflict?
>
> MfG
> Goswin
>
>
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