Re: ascertaining reasons for woody package removal
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:55:47AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:19:46AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > I've got an advise from ajt in private mail to upload to
> > > woody-proposed-updates. Unfortunately ftp-master does not accept this
> > > distribution target and I now wonder what to do next ...
> >
> > Try 'stable'.
>
> Thanks I tried. What about package version?
>
> Rejected: libgtkimreg-dev_0.1.2-4woody_i386.deb: old version (0.1.2-4) in
> unstable <= new version (0.1.2-4woody) targeted at proposed-updates.
>
> I intended no new version number for the same package. Any suggestion
> here?
You need to have a higher version number in unstable than in
woody/proposed-updates at all times. Try something like 0.1.2-3woody1
for the backport (it doesn't really matter if the version numbers in the
changelog aren't strictly increasing).
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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