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Re: understanding 2025Q2 in aarch64



* On 2025-08-13 at 13:08 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:

I would definitely listen to jperkin.  I would think that changing the
URL back, pkgin up, pkgin fug, would return you to the previous step,
and if not it's a bug.   But then you get to keep both halves, figure it
out, and submit changes to fix the bug.

I'd be very wary of classing it as a bug. You can't reasonably handle going backwards with a SUPERSEDES as the previous repository will have no knowledge of it as we cannot predict the future. The only way to do that would be to go back and retrospectively update all pkg_summary files in EOL repositories to add some new metadata that records a reverse SUPERSEDES entry somehow, and that's pretty impractical.

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