Packages are not published to the right section

[Jamu Kakar]

I've been puzzling over why using this source:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/autoppa/ubuntu gutsy universe

to install the 'autoppa' package fails with a 'package missing or
obsoleted' message from apt-get. When I look in:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/autoppa/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/autoppa/

I see that the relevant .deb's are in place. The debian/control file
in the .tar.gz file that has been uploaded specifies universe in the
Section field. After some chatter on #launchpad blueyed mentioned
that he installed it with a main source:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/autoppa/ubuntu gutsy main

which doesn't make sense since the package has, to my knowledge, never
specified main in the Section field. Further, looking at the .tar.gz
file for a package in:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/autoppa/ubuntu/pool/main/a/autoppa/

shows that the debian/control file there specifies universe in the
Section field.

So I have two questions:

1. Why did this package get published in the main section of the PPA?

2. Why is it not installable using a universe deb line?

Can this be fixed? A blog entry on the Launchpad Blog describing
AutoPPA points to the universe deb line (which worked at the time the
article was written) now has instructions that don't actually work.

[Jamu Kakar (jkakar)]

I guess this is a dupe of bug #157561. It seems pretty odd for
packages to be auto-moved to main.

[Celso Providelo (cprov)]

Jamu, this issue is in fact a duplication of #163716.

In order to keep PPA system as simpler as possible we removed ogre-model restrictions and are forcing all new uploads to main component. They will be able to reach their deps from all components from ubuntu primary archive and also from -security & -updates.

We had to override all previous packages published in other components than main to keep the new mechanism and data sane.