On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:03:07PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > I disagree that this is needed, not for any of the usual reasons, but > for the simple reason that this functionality already exists. > > The namespace of an apt repository is its URL, and any information > available in a "Release" file at that URL. If two versions of the same package share the same version number, apt-get gets confused even if the URL and its Release file are different. It wouldn't surprise me if this is because apt-get keeps a hash array similar to: $package{"mypackage"}{"1.1"}{"md5sum"} = ... (I haven't checked the code though), so it can only store one set of details for each given package version. So the URL is not really a namespace here, the version number is... -- Brian May <bam@debian.org>