On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:44:22 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Friday, 21 October 2016 23:03:48 CEST you wrote: > > Looks like it gets and uses the first or second hit which is 5.22.2-5 > > for an old source package still lingering around. > Good catch. I've also been puzzled sometimes by cme results but I've never > found the origin of the issue.
In this case I was really tempted to take a look since I know that 5.22 is not our current perl version :) > > or for binary instead of source? > I like that better. It certainly is enough to get perl version in unstable. Ack. > On the other hand, what should be done with a case like: > > $ wget -q -O - > 'https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison?package=libuv1&b=deb' > libuv1 | 1.9.0-1~bpo8+1 | jessie-backports | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, > i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x > libuv1 | 1.9.0-1 | unstable | hurd-i386 > libuv1 | 1.9.1-1 | testing | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, > i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x > libuv1 | 1.9.1-3 | buildd-unstable | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, > i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, > ppc64el, s390x > libuv1 | 1.9.1-3 | unstable | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, > i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, > ppc64el, s390x > > Which version should be considered as the unstable one ? Could we have a > similar problem when trying to cleanup > old versions (the one older than old-stable) ? Too bad we still have non-release architectures in (r)madison and other outputs. In this case I'd like to see 1.9.1-3. > A way around that is to consider amd64 as the "reference" arch to get package > version. This would > simplify the problem and be correct most of the time. Sounds reasonable to me. Or maybe just taking the highest version in unstable would work as well. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Tanita Tikaram: Little Sister Leaving Town
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