Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tags -1 + wontfix Control: retitle -1 aptitude: support for same package name and version in different repositories but different content
Hi, As the maintainer said, all of the main Debian packaging tools, dpkg, apt and aptitude, decide on versions to install and what's newest based on comparing package versions (see dpkg --compare-versions). Se also #737085 for a recent example with apt of how things go wrong because of this, even with quite skilled developers very familiar with the system try to bootstrap a new architecture. So having different packages in different repositories with the same name and version is not something that the tools are designed/prepared to handle nicely, so I don't think that this request will ever be addressed. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
