On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Steve Robbins wrote: > > > The script dpkg-scanpackages from dpkg-dev exhibits a problem if the > > hierarchy scanned has multiple versions of the same package in it. If > > the "binarydir" has foo.1.deb and foo.2.deb, dpkg-scanpackages just > > takes the first one found by "find". Even if it is the older version. > > I think it would be better to include both, but sort the newer one first > in the output, that gives maximum future flexability.
It wasn't clear to me that Packages *could* hold multiple versions of a single package. Where is the Packages file format documented? As long as dselect and apt-get are happy, that's fine by me. -S
