Hi Daniel, sorry for the late reply.
Daniel Burrows wrote: > Losing Origin information by changing your sources.list is a bit of a > corner case. I suppose I could heuristically check all the packages to > see if any Debian packages existed in the cache, or (better) if any > packages at all had an Origin tag. However, note that this wouldn't > help if you had any package at all with Origin: Debian in your cache > prior to changing sources.list. Okay, so I think we both agree that the problem is a corner case. Then probably the real problem to solve is how the corner case is handled. > Another option would be to just change the message to say that either > it's not a Debian package or you need to run "update". But I believe > this would just confuse people into thinking they needed to run update > when in fact this is almost never going to help. I agree that this wouldn't be so optimal. However there must be a possibility to detect this case where sources.list has been changed, or not? Couldn't you print two different messages depending on weither this is the case or not? Best Regards, Patrick
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