Bug#203741: apt sigcheck patches
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.
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- mdz
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