Debug symbol packages have section non-free when only main and universe in sources.list

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Aug 11 18:27:20 UTC 2020


On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:24:08PM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> I have only main and universe components in sources.list[0] but some
> dbgsym packages (e.g. seq-gen-dbgsym, zfs-test-dbgsym etc.) incorrectly
> have section as contrib and non-free.

Overrides (the mechanism by which components and sections are set in
Packages files) indeed aren't synced.  I'm not aware of anything that
cares about the section of dbgsym packages, though, so we don't consider
this important enough to be worth the non-trivial amount of code needed
to fix it.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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