reverting from change to karmic development branch

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Thu Jul 9 07:06:45 BST 2009


Hello Stephen,

Stephen Burke [2009-07-08 10:07 -0500]:
> I was doing some work on a bug in Launchpad and needed to get Karmic
> source for a particular package.  To do this I added a file in the
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory with the following contents.  I got
> the source I needed but there were some side effects.
> 
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates main restricted
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe
> 
> I noticed that my update manager had a lot of packages to update and
> mentioned a distribution upgrade (not sure of the exact wording).

Are you sure that you only had deb-src? It seems that this confused
update-manager then. Michael, that sounds like a pretty bad bug if
that is so?

Thanks,

Martin

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