Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?
"Adam D. Barratt" <debian-mentors@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> Geert Stappers wrote, Friday, June 04, 2004 7:38 AM:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:30:12PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
>> > Geert Stappers wrote:
> [...]
>> > > 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.
>> >
>> > I don't think this is a good idea, because those numbers are used for
>> > non-maintainer uploads. You could have different versions with the same
>> > number, one uploaded to m.d.n and the other uploaded to the main archive
>> > as an NMU. It's also confusing because it looks like an NMU.
>>
>> Relax.
>> Offical Debian package numbers start with x.y.z-1, never as x.y.z-0
>> There is no harm that it _looks_ like a NMU, it does mean
>> no official Debian status. Please assume smart users that can tell
>> the difference between zero and non zero.
>
> Actually, it's entirely possible, if rare, as Goswin already pointed out.
>
> If the current version in the archive is 1.1, and you upload an NMU of 1.2,
> that NMU should be 1.2-0.1 (so that a maintainer upload of 1.2-1 supersedes
> it).
It should be 1.1-0.1 so a maintainer upload of 1.2 superseeds it.
> Adam
MfG
Goswin
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