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Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)



On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:54:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> >> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluated to be less than the
> >> > empty string.  If a package is the target of a security upload in
> >> > stable, you can be certain that the testing/unstable version will also
> >> > increase when the new package is introduced to fix the problem there as
> >> > well.
> >> 
> >> What if it's a NMU?
> >> 
> > Well, an NMU would go into unstable directly and not into stable.
> 
> Yes, but the version in stable (x.y.z-(w+1)~lenny1) would be higher than the
> one in unstable (x.y.z-w.n)
> 
OK.  I misread your question.  I was not thinking of the security issue
being fixed in unstable by a NMU.  Good point.

I'm stumped.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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