Re: small question regarding UDD and Source.xz file

[Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com>]

note: I'm a normal Debian user

On 09/03/21 19:42, Patrice Duroux wrote:

> I am surprised to find multiple entries for a given package and
> architecture having different versions

there are some case that you can have multiple entries for the same package:
* different hardware architecture
* virtual package
* different repositories (for example: security, main)
* ...

> curl -s https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/main/source/Sources.xz
> | xzgrep -A 7 "Package: sphinx"

wow experimental!

> gives:
>
> Package: sphinx

sphinx is a virtual package

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/pkg-basics.en.html#virtual

> And more over UDD is not showing this one:

I think that udd don't show virtual package, probably it show only real 
packages.
I don't know, I never used udd 
(https://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase)

Ciao
Davide