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How Debian manage conflicts on packages names? As example, when there is many packages with the same name on various repositories.

Braiam
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When there are many packages with the same name, how could APT know they are different? It can not. So it will install the one who has the highest version number.

Kan-Ru Chen
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See the Debian Policy Manual.

Section 3.1 says every package needs a unique name. Section 3.2 describes how version numbers are to be determined.

Neil
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You can use apt's preferences file to give your repository a higher priority.

man apt_preferences
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