PPA "Copy packages" issues

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Celso Providelo
<celso.providelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Bruce Cowan
>> <lists at bcowan.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I'm having trouble using the PPA "copy packages" facility. I am trying
>>> to use it to copy packages from one release to another (Hardy->Intrepid
>>> and vice-versa). When I try to do this, I get an error - "same version
>>> already has published binaries in the destination archive". The only way
>>> I can copy packages is to copy the binaries.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Known bug.  It was mentioned back when the feature was added, but no
>> further discussion that I'm aware of.
>
> It's definitely not a bug.
>
> You cannot sanely distribute the same binary version built in
> different contexts (series), thus you cannot copy only the source to
> be rebuilt in another series. The publisher won't be able to place the
> new binaries in the pool/ directory and APT won't be able to do the
> right thing when installing it or upgrading the system.

That the option to copy from gutsy to hardy and rebuild exists when it
is impossible to do should be considered a bug.  If it can't be done,
why supply a button that pretends to allow it?

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