[Aptitude-devel] Bug#519893: aptitude: aptitude attempts to resolve unmet dependencies by upgrading a package with itself

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: retitle -1 aptitude: support for same package name and
version in different repositories but different content

Hi,

As the maintainer said, all of the main Debian packaging tools, dpkg,
apt and aptitude, decide on versions to install and what's newest
based on comparing package versions (see dpkg --compare-versions).  Se
also #737085 for a recent example with apt of how things go wrong
because of this, even with quite skilled developers very familiar with
the system try to bootstrap a new architecture.

So having different packages in different repositories with the same
name and version is not something that the tools are designed/prepared
to handle nicely, so I don't think that this request will ever be
addressed.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>