remarks on the diversity of the source versions among archs in one release for some packages

[Patrice Duroux <patrice.duroux@gmail.com>]

Hi,

In general this breaks links in the corresponding page :

https://packages.debian.org/@RELEASE@/@PACKAGE@
(for instance: https://packages.debian.org/en/buster/ffmpeg)

where the 3 links are broken: 'Debian Changelog', 'Copyright File',
'Debian Patch Tracker'.

Also DPT (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/@PACKAGE@) is not well
designed for such cases.
For instance, https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ffmpeg shows:

o-o-stable: 7:4.1.9-0+deb10u1
o-o-sec: 7:4.1.11-0+deb10u1
oldstable: 7:4.3.5-0+deb11u1

and following the first link
(https://packages.debian.org/source/oldoldstable/ffmpeg) gives then:

ffmpeg (7:4.1.11-0+deb10u1)

I understand that this may be due to the security / updated version of
those packages that may create such heterogeneity by the time.
Are /metadata.ftp-master.debian.org and
https://sources.debian.org/patches/ not designed to store those
different version information?

A solution would be to provide the links as supplementary columns in
the 'Download @PACKAGE@' section table so that they are corresponding
to each arch for which the version matches. In fact the 'filelist'
link in this table looks like it is arch dependent. For instance:
https://packages.debian.org/en/buster/amd64/ffmpeg/filelist
So does it provide the right content then?

Regards,
Patrice