On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:56:40PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> More generally, it seems that we have a big problem.
>
> Many tools relied on the fact that the Sources file only contained one
> entry per package. This was changed recently, without any impact study,
> and instantly broke many tools and scripts.
<snip>
> I'm not sure where we should got from here: should we ask ftpmasters to
> consider reverting that change in some way? Or instead, try to find all the
> tools that relied on the old format?
I think we should understand how many things have been broken by this:
if they're many we can ask for the revert and start porting the code, if
we're a few just fix them. The PTS, for once, can easily be fixed: it
would be enough to remember the most recent version read while importing
Sources (but unfortunately I didn't have time to do that this week-end).
How about mailing -devel and ask people to report breakages? (better if
with pointers to the already reported bugs)
Cheers.
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