argh! argh! aaaarrgh!
So it seems that linux-kernel-di's dsc file is overflowing a static limit in apt, this makes apt unable to use the entire Sources file. I did not get this fixed (by dropping kernel versions from linux-kernel-di) before dinstall, because a) other changes had made linux-kernel-di unbuildable b) in my haste I got the version number wrong c) alioth was down at a key point in time d) it takes half an hour to build it and I had to built it 4 times in all e) someone picked up the phone at a very bad time. Like the title says, ARGGH!!
I have an opinion of apt's penchant for using hard-coded constants for buffer sizes, and of the pam LDAP stuff used on alioth, but it's not printable.
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