Re: Maintaing an aptable archive with a potato - woody mixture
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 18:59:58 +0100 (+0000), Marc Haber wrote:
[snip]
> If we didn't change much (for example, only a modified config file
> that is only relevant for new installs), our package has the same
> version
> number like the current Debian package, causing a new Debian release
> to
> override our package automatically.
Since maintainer uploads are:
package-n+1
and NMU uploads are:
pacakge-n.1
how about doing a "mini-MNU":
package-n.0.1
This means:
a) any new debian package will overwrite it
b) it's not pretending to be the same version
c) you can easily look for packages you made
> If we changed more (for example, fixing bugs that are present in the
> Debian package), our package has its debian-revision incremented. This
> way, a new debian revision shouldn't override our package, but a new
> upstream version will. I am not sure if this is desireable.
epochs? Bump it by two to make sure? Personally, I'd still do the thing
above as well.
Adrian
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