Comment 9 for bug 77528

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Elliott Hughes (enh) wrote : Re: [Bug 77528] Re: 'Size mismatch' error is unhelpful

On Fri, February 6, 2009 07:53, John Vivirito wrote:
> This is not a updatre-manager bug it is a repo bug. seems as if the
> index wasnt updated on the repo.

not true. the repo is fine, but update-manager(1) isn't doing [the
equivalent of] an "apt-get update". it's using out-of-date data, and
claiming surprise when it doesn't get what it (incorrectly) expects.

> We also dont support unofficial repos.

whose policy is that?

> And
> we dont support Debian binaries installing on Ubuntu as there can be big
> issues with depends.

that's not relevant to this bug.

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