X-Git-Url: https://git.deb.at/?p=deb%2Fpackages.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=BACKEND;h=445a45db391b046c22b775402eea2e8026bb78b9;hp=f3a57537e4372fa8b98eced5faaf0a6f0897b5ac;hb=7a35406ba508365d2a25bd77c6ae8599807bdd1c;hpb=888a7de02572eb30f2b35aa6ea469ad7eb9f05b4

diff --git a/BACKEND b/BACKEND
index f3a5753..445a45d 100644
--- a/BACKEND
+++ b/BACKEND
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ Generated by means of Packages.gz files:
 |  value: \0 separated tuples of "archive suite arch component section priority version shortdescription"
 |          (so you can split on spaces in 8 pieces, but need to not split further
 |          because shortdescription can have spaces)
-|          arch can also be 'virtual', with c/s/p/v being undefined then, and
-|          shortdescription being a space-separated list of packages providing
-|          the package that is the key
   Notes: - maybe add did right before shortdescription?
-         - TODO: make sure for each (archive,suite), newest package is shown
-           first, and all newest versions for each such section is first, so
-           that one can efficiently lookup just the newest entry for a given
-           (archive,suite)
+		 - for each suite, newest package is shown first, and (suite,
+		   architecture) is unique, the newest one is choosen. Once you find
+		   the right suite, you know you've got the newest, once you found
+		   your (suite,arch), you know you've found the only unique such entry
+		 - The very first element is different (TODO: maybe should be
+		   different DB then?), a \01 separated hash of suite -> provided-by,
+		   like "suite1\01prov1 prov2\01suite2\01prov1"
 
 | package_postfixes.db:
 |  key: a postfix string of a package name