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Re: How do I solve messed up package version numbers?



On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 07:22:09PM +1000 , Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:00:23AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > I made a silly mistake in the version numbers of postgresql.  The package in
> > woody is 7.0-0.beta3-1 instead of 7.0-0.beta3.1.  
> 
> Huh? Why do you want beta3 in the debian revision? Isn't the beta3 part
> to do with the upstream version?
> 
> Are these betas of 7.0? ie, is 7.0 meant to be better than 7.0beta3? You
> can use versions like `7.0-release-1' to get around this when the

this is ugly. I thought everyone abandoned this after the glibc-2.0.7pre
problems.

> release happens.

cause it's not, that the upstream calls it?

				Petr Cech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
           cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz

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