On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:40:30PM -0500, Isaac Jones wrote: > I agree with Colin that the idea was to get rid of the per-section > Release files. It was probably an oversight that we never got around > to fixing the cases where they were actually used. Neither of us > really use pinning. > > Does anyone know why these sub-release files exist? Were they around > before the signed ones that "apt-secure" uses?
They are used by apt 0.5 for pinning, so they go back at least as far as apt 0.5. I don't know at what point the top-level Release appeared. -- - mdz
