On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: > Can't apt realize that if it is going to install a package from source > X, it should use the Packages entry from source X too?
The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different packages. Since dpkg manipulates the status file and only has information from the .deb there is no way to force a particular contents into the status file. Jason
