Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:44:54PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH.
> >  This is a dummy package. It should be safe to remove it.
> >  installed-size: 76
> >  source: krb4

If you mean the spacing is different, that is my fault (I use vim in
mutt, and it automatically indents stuff pasted in using X... Arrghhh...
Need to disable that by default in my config I think).

Package: kerberos4kth1
Version: 1.1-11-2
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Mikael Andersson <mikan@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Filename: ./pool/krb4/kerberos4kth1_1.1-11-2_all.deb
Size: 57786
MD5sum: 330d49310a3264f037875e06a1328458
Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH.
 This is a dummy package. It should be safe to remove it.
installed-size: 76
source: krb4

vs

[504] [snoopy:unstable:bam] /home/ftp/pub/debian >dpkg -I
./pool/krb4/kerberos4kth1_1.1-11-2_all.deb
 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 57786 bytes: control archive= 701 bytes.
     288 bytes,    10 lines      control              
     229 bytes,     3 lines      md5sums              
     281 bytes,     9 lines   *  postinst             #!/bin/sh
     208 bytes,     7 lines   *  prerm                #!/bin/sh
 Package: kerberos4kth1
 Version: 1.1-11-2
 Section: net
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: all
 Installed-Size: 76
 Maintainer: Mikael Andersson <mikan@debian.org>
 Source: krb4
 Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH.
  This is a dummy package. It should be safe to remove it.

The description looks the same now:

Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH.
 This is a dummy package. It should be safe to remove it.
Description: Dummy library package for Kerberos4 From KTH.
 This is a dummy package. It should be safe to remove it.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>