Package: approx
Version: 4.6-1
Severity: minor
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I've recently installed approx. Mostly, I have been very happy with its
performance and usefulness. One thing troubled me: I was getting 120 +/-
packages not imported from the existing apt cache. As I tracked down the
problem, I noticed that theses same packages were also being flagged as
improperly named (such as debian-reference-en_2.46_amd64.deb, but should
be named debian-reference_2.46_all.deb).Two copies existed in the cache
that were the same size and returned the same md5sum; this was true for
most packages that were failing to be imported by approx-import. A few
were older versions that should have purged with `apt-get autocleaned`,
but perhaps the wrong naming prevented apt from seeing them.
So, for each package failing to import, I removed the improperly named
deb and then approx-import did it's job just fine. This problem was a
bit frustrating, but all in all, I'm actually glad approx-import refused
to import the problem packages.
I realise this may seem like a non-issue to you, but I guess I think of
approx as having helped me fix a small problem. I also thought that if
this could happen to me, it might happen to others. So perhaps this bug
report should just be closed at your own convenience. But, at least
someone else might benefit from my troubles.
Thanks for approx! It's great to have a program that does so much:
caching proxy as well as a local repo maintainer. Good job.
Respectfully,
John Vogel
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
500 unstable localhost
500 testing localhost
500 experimental localhost
1 experimental localhost
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
===============================-+-===========
debconf (>= 0.5) | 1.5.39
OR debconf-2.0 |
libc6 (>= 2.7) | 2.13-7
libpcre3 (>= 8.10) | 8.12-3
adduser | 3.113
bzip2 | 1.0.5-6
curl | 7.21.6-1
openbsd-inetd |
OR inet-superserver |
update-inetd | 4.38+nmu1
Package's Recommends field is empty.
Suggests (Version) | Installed
==========================================-+-===========
libconfig-model-approx-perl | 1.003-1
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