Package: apt Severity: wishlist In a recent pair of related threads about using alternate identifiers, it became clear that different folks prefer different kinds of identifiers and not all of the preferred options are supported by apt. https://lists.debian.org/874l4ekxih.fsf@43-1.org https://lists.debian.org/fa3014a6-e552-56f7-1257-0ad208ffa9b2@sourcepole.ch I propose that this demand could be solved by adding support for an Aliases field in the Release files that would contain all the extra identifiers corresponding to a specific Suite/Codename that are supported for use in the apt sources. I think this is a better option than hard-coding support for specific kinds of identifiers like years or versions in apt. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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