Category debian:archive

This collection represents a Debian archive (a.k.a. repository).

  • Variables when adding items: none

  • Data:

    • may_reuse_versions: if true, versions of packages in this archive may be reused provided that the previous packages with that version have been removed; this should be false for typical user-facing archives to avoid confusing behaviour from apt, but it may be useful to set it to true for experimental archives

  • Valid items:

    • debian:suite collections

  • Per-item data: none

  • Lookup names:

    • name:NAME: the suite whose name property is NAME

    • source-version:NAME_VERSION: the source package named NAME at VERSION.

    • binary-version:NAME_VERSION_ARCHITECTURE: the set of binary packages on ARCHITECTURE whose srcpkg_name property is NAME and whose version property is VERSION.

  • Constraints:

    • there may be at most one package with a given name and version (and architecture, in the case of binary packages) active in the collection at a given time, although the same package may be in multiple suites

    • each poolified file name resulting from an active artifact may only refer to at most one concrete file in the collection at a given time (this differs from the above constraint in the case of source packages, which contain multiple files that may overlap with other source packages)

    • if may_reuse_versions is false, then each poolified file name in the collection may only refer to at most one concrete file, regardless of whether conflicting files are active or removed