On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:19:43PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:48:55PM +0200, Remco Seesink wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am preparing an updated package with an unsolved security bug. > > I would like to upload it to mentors.debian.net, but when it > > gets uploaded to main it will have the same version number as the > > one on mentors. I would to know if there is a way to upload to > > mentors and be sure it gets upgraded when it enters main. > > > > I had this problem before, but now it is worse because of the security > > bug. > > > > I looked at the policy and the reverse problem seems to be solved > > by using epochs. An negative epoch is not the way right? And how do > > I apply an epoch? Yada complains when I try to put an Version: field > > somewhere. > > > > Is there an other way to do it without having to bump the debian version? > > Or is that exactly what I should do? > > The proper way is to simply not upload to mentors.d.n with 'official' > debian revision numbers. Assuming the offical version will be 1.0-1, use > for example 1.0-1~mentors1 (if mentors.d.n accepts ~ in version > numbers), or alternatively 1.0-0mentors1 (decrease debian-revision by > one, append a mentor-specific part). Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use 1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for non official debian packages. > > This way, there is never a clash, you can see from the version number > it's an unoffical version. > > Two alternative approaches: > - simply increment debian revision, and use -v appropriately, it doesn't > matter certain debian-revisions are never uploaded. Disadvantage: > changelog cluttering, usually people won't have those unofficial > intermediate versions, and the differences among those are not very > interesting usually. If you merge the topmost changelog entry every > time, you seemingly have gaps in version numbering according to > changelog, not very nice either. > - Don't care about m.d.n, simply have your fixed version uploaded with > the same version number. m.d.n is unoffical anyway, you in no way have > to take care of proper upgrade paths at all. Disadvantage: in > bugreports with reportbug, and for the user itself, it's hard to see > whether the user/reporter has an unoffical version, or the official > one. > > --Jeroen > > -- > Jeroen van Wolffelaar > Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) > http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl Cheers Geert Stappers
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