debmirror cannot download Canonical repository, but reports "Duplicate dist" error instead

[luvr]

Binary package hint: debmirror

Running Ubuntu 10.04, using debmirror 1:2.4.4ubuntu2.
Trying to download the "Canonical" repository into a "PartnerRepos" directory, as follows:

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mkdir PartnerRepos
debmirror --method=http --host=archive.canonical.com --root=ubuntu \
 --dist=lucid,lucid-backports,lucid-proposed,lucid-security,lucid-updates \
 --section=partner --arch=amd64,i386 --progress PartnerRepos
---</cut>---

This terminates with an error: "Duplicate dist"

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Get Release files.
[0%] Getting: dists/lucid/Release... ok
[0%] Getting: dists/lucid/Release.gpg... ok
[0%] Getting: dists/lucid-backports/Release... ok
[0%] Getting: dists/lucid-backports/Release.gpg... ok
Duplicate dist lucid.
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Apparently, the lucid version of "debmirror" assumes that a repository has only one dist by default, and explicitly handles the "Ubuntu" repository in a special way, to support its multiple dists. The same problem occurs under maverick (which uses the same debmirror version as lucid), as well as under the current natty pre-release.

I documented this issue in greater detail at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10103252#post10103252

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. It seems this is unnecessary as the partner archive only uses the release pocket (i.e. lucid, maverick). Do you have a use case why the other pockets are needed?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for debmirror (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]