Re: Apt-dpkg differences

2014-09-30 Thread Cesare Leonardi
On 30/09/2014 03:27, John Hasler wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/FtpMaster/Override So, if i understood correctly, apt reports the correct information, taking care of possible overrides by FTP master. Instead dpkg reports the original intention of the packager but might not reflect the real s

Apt-dpkg differences

2014-09-29 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Why a relevant number of packages appears to have different priority depending on where you look for that field? For example if you get "aptitude_0.6.11-1_amd64.deb" from a Debian mirror and you look inside "debian/control" file, you'll see: Priority: important But if you get /debian/dists/si