Bug#98556: apt seems to have a problem with picking releases

[Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal

Hi,

apt is confused with releases on my system it seems:

lucretia:~# apt-get install adduser/temp
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Release 'temp' for 'adduser' was not found
lucretia:~# grep Archive /var/lib/apt/lists/_home_admin_mechanix_debs_i386_archives_._Release
Archive: temp
lucretia:~# grep adduser /var/lib/apt/lists/_home_admin_mechanix_debs_i386_archives_._Packages
Package: adduser
Filename: i386/adduser_3.36_all.deb
 This package includes the adduser and deluser commands for creating
 Adding users with adduser is much easier than adding them by hand.
lucretia:~# apt-cache showpkg adduser | grep mechanix_debs_i386
3.36(/var/lib/apt/lists/_home_admin_mechanix_debs_i386_archives_._Packages)

This 'temp' release is a bunch of debs that I threw in a directory and ran
dpkg-scanpackages on; there *is* a Release file in it etc., everything is as
it should be.
Any ideas what the problem would be?

I'm sending this to maintonly, but feel free to make a real bug out of it if
you think something is really wrong.

Regards,

Filip

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux lucretia 2.4.3 #11 Fri Apr 27 21:48:47 CEST 2001 i686

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.3-1           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010506 The GNU stdc++ library