Re: Downgrading a package to get it into upcoming release

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Antonin Kral wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for some advise / opinions. I am working with guys from 
> MongoDB project to get stable package in Debian. We have currently 
> version 1.3.1 in unstable, this is considered as development branch 
> which is not very stable.
>
> Is there any way how to reasonably push older version (1.2.x which is 
> considered stable), which has not been in Debian before to enable its 
> inclusion in upcoming Debian freeze/stable release?

You could use epochs to make the old version have a newer version number 
according to dpkg. I don't know how distasteful that is, though.

-- Asheesh.

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