Debian packages : same {name,version,arch} but different content

[FlorentCoppint]

Hi,

I would like to report a problem with your Debian packaging system : package "openvpn" provided at swupdate.openvpn.net has same tuple {name,version,arch} (same filename) for Debian Jessie & Wheezy, but package content is different.

Debian ​documentation on repository format explicitly forbids duplicate packages with different content in one repository or in set of repositories for one distribution:

A repository must not include different packages (different content) with the same package name, version, and architecture. When a repository is meant to be used as a supplement to another repository this should hold for the joint main+supplement repository as well.

Your workaround was to set subdirectories in "pool" dir, but that's not the standard way to do.

You should, for example, set version to "2.3.10-debian7" for Wheezy and "-debian8" for Jessie, instead of "debian0" for both.

Do you think that's possible to fix that ?

This situation is causing problems when building custom repositories with Aptly for example.

Thank you.

Florent

[FlorentCoppint]

By the way, if there is somewhere a git (or what-else) where I could try to fix it, I would be happy to contribute.

[Samuli Seppänen]

Actually I was not aware that this is a problem, so I definitely did not work around it :). Anyways, the repositories are managed using ​freight. If the subdirectories under pool are a problem, then you could help by fixing the problem in freight code.

OpenVPN packages, on the other hand, are built with ​sbuild_wrapper. The wrapper could definitely be modified to create packages with names like "wheezy0" or "jessie0" instead of "debian0". If you issue a pull request the problem probably gets fixed more quickly than if I have to do all the work :).

[Samuli Seppänen]

This been fixed in the new apt repositories (see OpenvpnSoftwareRepos). I will add redirects from the old repository to the new one soon, and then this ticket can be closed.