Synaptic conflicts in repository

[Jean Privat]

Nothing prevent the user to select redundant repositories, for example
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted universe
and
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty main restricted

Errors only appears while updating.

Solutions:
1- Avoid selection of redundant repositories (some repositories may be exclusive
for example)
or
2- Do not bother the user with redundant errors in update

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This is an unfortunate side effect of the way that apt's sources.list was
designed, as contrasted with how we lay out our archive. It may be that there
is a way to solve this in synaptic, but it may need to be a
documentation/warning issue

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this bug still relevant ? Must it be marked as WONTFIX ?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

It is still a problem. It dosn't happen that often anymore because the current repository adding tool is more clever. But it is still possible to have duplicated entries. Some code in the gnome-software-properties needs to be written to check and remove duplicates.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is fixed in the current apt, it will detect duplicated urls and not fetch them twice.