Re: dpkg-scanpackage is ignoring newwe?
Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote:
> running dpkg-scanpackage i386 over > Packages
> i get (over is size 0)
> ! Package msn-transport (filename i386/msn-transport_1.0-2_i386.deb) is
> repeat;
> ignored that one and using data from i386/msn-transport_1.0-1_i386.deb !
> which means dpkg-scanpackage is ignoring the -2 in favor of the -1.. why is
> this so and what can i do? :)
dpkg-scanpackage just chooses the first one it sees. You can manually move
the old versions out before hand based on the embedded version numbers,
but that breaks when you've got epochs. Have a look at how apt-move handles
this.
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