Bug#970907: SourceRecords: Please expose release attributes
On 2020-09-28 08:21, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> On 2020-09-25 11:33, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>>> Patches to add the expose those attributes in the MetaIndex
>>> bindings are of course welcome.
>
> So this seemed straightforward enough and I gave it a try [3], but that
> didn't work unfortunately: the five new attributes are remain empty.
I traced the cause of this back to the C++ library, specifically this
call [5], where debReleaseIndex (a subclass of metaIndex) is initialized
without these attributes.
It's not really surprising as it seems to be initialized with data from
the stanzas of sources.list*, which do not contain archive, origin, etc.
This is where I got lost because I'm not familiar enough with APT internals
and the code base.
If there is an easy way to get from a sources.list entry to the
corresponding Release file data, I would appreciate any tips so that I may
attempt a patch extending this.
My gut says there should be, because it's being done somehow for binary
packages (I just couldn't figure out how).
> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/ckk/python-apt/-/commit/1baceb007096346d96b887bef11280b2938703d6
[5] https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/master/apt-pkg/deb/debmetaindex.cc#L1183
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