Bug#203741: apt sigcheck patches
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:37:44PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 06:00:05PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 17:11, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > > Was the intention to move away from per-section Release files, and to only
> > > use the top-level one? Or was this an oversight, and we should be
> > > downloading these files and continuing to use them?
> >
> > I think our thought was that the per-section Release files should go
> > away in favor the main Release file; they don't actually contain any
> > more information, right?
>
> Correct, they do not contain any more information. The only feature that
> would be lost is the ability to set different parameters (codename,
> notautomatic, etc.) for the various sections of an archive. I don't think
> that anyone is doing this, and it doesn't seem worth the extra complexity.
>
> One other small difference is that the main Release file uses "Suite" rather
> than "Archive". I'm inclined to just change the code to look for Suite,
> since it seems to match other terminology better.
Done in 0.6.4 (experimental).
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- mdz
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