El sáb, 26-02-2005 a las 14:18 -0500, Josh Metzler escribió: > On Saturday 26 February 2005 02:45 am, sean finney wrote: > > hi, > > > > i'm maintaining a source package that produces two binary packages. > > however, one of the packages is built from a seperately distributed (same > > author, same website, but different tarball and versioning scheme) > > tarball. > > > > so i'm thinking these two packages should be generated from their own > > respective tarballs (and i'm not sure why they weren't in the first > > place). however, one thing that's not clear to me is whether or not the > > new second source package will have to make it through the NEW queue. > > if it does, this is a problem given that NEW seems to be stalled and the > > previous version of the package will be totally broken when the other > > is updated. > > > > comments would be appreciated... thanks. > > > > sean > > I seem to recall hearing that NEW processing is based solely on binary > packages, so that the new source package would not need to go through NEW > if it creates a binary package that is already in the archive. > > I couldn't find anything about this through google, though, so it may be > best to upload to experimental first and see if your new packages go right > in or not. If you create a new binary, you have to wait for you package to be processed in the NEW queue. There were a proposal for that to happen (old sources don't traverse NEW when a binary package is added) but nothing happened. -- Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo jsogo@debian.org
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